If I paid monthly for a server and then spent time configuring it, now I would be able to talk to people who pay monthly for their servers and spent time configuring them.
Alternatively, if you paid monthly to any hosting provider, you could be talking with customers of any other hosting providers.
And if there were any other hosting providers that came doing such shoddy things in their production systems, they would be wiped out of the ecosystem, but the ecosystem would still be alive.
And if there were any other hosting providers that came doing such shoddy things in their production systems, they would be wiped out of the ecosystem, but the ecosystem would still be alive.
Just like email, or phone lines... antifragile.