• Webhost

    Origin

    From en + web + host.

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    Noun

    webhost

    (plural webhosts)
    1. An Internet hosting service that hosts websites for clients.
      • 2007, Mike Pywell, Working for Yourself, If you have a reputable internet service provider or webhost, much of the spam that would otherwise come your way should be stopped before it even reaches your computer.
      • 2008, Kimberly Spinks Burleson, Prepare to Be a Teen Millionaire, I assembled my servers and shipped them to a facility in Chicago called BBN Planet. They were in the business of selling physical space in small, medium, and large chunks to webhosts.
      • 2009, Steve Suehring, PHP 6 and MySQL 6 Bible, So the happiest solution possible is to find out that is already installed, and PHP already has support enabled (whether that’s due to the diligence of your webhost or because the PHP you installed by yourself had it included).

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