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Northwind Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Web hosting service

According to Wikipedia, web hosting service is defined as follows:

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own website accessible via the World Wide Web.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_hosting_service )

In this usage, what does host or hosting mean?
  

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A web server may "host" your site. The term host here is technical and means that the necessary software and hardware (accompanied by the corresponding services) is provided by a computer (or a group of computers) that are assigned to do so by the owner of the site, in order to make your site publicly available. These computers may belong to the owner of the site, or more probably, to a hosting company which is specialised to provide this kind of services.

— Myle

  • A web server may "host" your site.
  • The term host here is technical and means that the necessary software and hardware (accompanied by the corresponding services) is provided by a computer (or a group of computers) that are assigned to do so by the owner of the site, in order to make your site publicly available.
  • These computers may belong to the owner of the site, or more probably, to a hosting company which is specialised to provide this kind of services.
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A web server may "host" your site. The term host here is technical and means that the necessary software and hardware (accompanied by the corresponding services) is provided by a computer (or a group of computers) that are assigned to do so by the owner of the site, in order to make your site publicly available.

These computers may belong to the owner of the site, or more probably, to a
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