[pbhjpbhj]

I've never knowingly had an UK ISP that restricted services I provide from my home computer. I've not been particularly careful in choosing either -- is that castrating of users a USA thing?

Gmail from a VPS has been a problem for me though, Microsoft mail has been worse (yes I look after the jots and tittles).

[DanBC]

Bans on use of servers used to be common and explicit across a range of dial-up ISPs.

They're not as explicit now, but all contract and AUPs include terminology like "damage our networks", which cover poorly set-up and poorly run servers.

[icebraining]

Terms are often not clear, but easily used to justify shutting someone down, e.g.

"Sky Broadband is for private use by you and members of your household only. It must not be used for any activities not reasonably expected of someone using Sky Broadband for domestic purposes."

[pbhjpbhj]

Things like running a low traffic mail server, web server, VNC, torrents, chat servers, game servers, and such are all domestic activities .. they could claim they're not, I could see Sky being very restrictive, do they actually block/disallow though?

[icebraining]

I don't know about Sky specifically.