That's a great idea! They should do the same thing to all of our utilities like water, sewer, electricity, etc.

For what it's worth: A friend used to host his website. The night before an election, they had two expensive dedicated servers running full tilt (static website). That was expensive so Lieberman switched to shared hosting with someone else for the next election. When his website shut down (with some sort of "over quota" text), he blamed his opponent for "hacking" it.

I suppose it's hard to tell the difference between a DDOS attack and lots of website visitors, but a skilled technician is expensive and smarter than a hosting control panel.