Forgot to Pay Webhosting. What Happens to the Backlinks?

Why so? You pay for a service. Why should a web host continue your service for days, sometimes weeks in anticipation that you'll eventually pay your bill? Typically, when customers don't pay their hosting bill on time, you can expect them to either cancel the account within a few days or just abandon the account.

If the customer were to contact the company and say "Hey listen, I won't be able to make the bill on the due date, could you extend it by a few days?" most likely there wouldn't be any problem.

There's way too much fraud & turn-over in this industry to stretch things out. Most, if not all companies send out numerous payment reminders & invoices 1-2 weeks before the payment is actually due. We used to allow 10 days past the due date before we suspend the service and frequently ran into problems with that. Now, it's 24 hours unless we're contacted and arrangements are made.

I'm not trying to start an argument on the subject, I'm just stating how it is from the other side of the table as a web host.

EDIT: OP, my apologies on hi-jacking your thread. The backlinks shouldn't be affected unless they're junk. If they're good quality, it should bounce right back.