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Hello,Liquid has been in production use since June 2006 and is now used by many other hosted web applications.In the sentence above, what does the words "hosted" mean?Thanks,Ryo

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

Here are a couple of dictionary definitions. I don't know much about the internet myself:

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A computer that functions as the beginning and end point of http://www.netlingo.com/word/data.php transfers. It is most commonly thought of as the place where your http://www.netlingo.com/word/web-site.php resides. An Internet host has a unique Internet address (http://www.netlingo.com/word/ip-address.php) and a unique http://www.netlingo.com/word/domain-name.php or http://www.netlingo.com/word/host-name.php. A host can also refer to a Web hosting company.

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A host is any computer directly connected to a network that acts as a repository for services such as e-mail, FTP, or websites that are available for other computers on the network.

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In the TCP/IP networking environment, a host is basically a node on the network that has an IP address. In contrast, a router is a device that interconnects networks.

In a network environment in which multiple LANs are connected together with a series of routers, a host is often referred to as the end system or ES. For example, if the accounting department is connected to the sales department with a router, then workstations in each department are referred to as "hosts" (or "end systems"), and the router is referred to as an intermediate system. There may be a number of intermediate systems that a communication message has to cross between one end system and another.

In the IBM environment, "host" is the term normally applied to mainframe computer systems. More appropriately, they are called the "host processors." These hosts include the IBM model 3090, IBM model 4381, or IBM model 9370.

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