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English

Etymology

From web +‎ host.

Noun

webhost (plural webhosts)

  1. An Internet hosting service that hosts websites for clients.
    • 2007, Mike Pywell, Bill Hilton, Working for Yourself, Which?, →ISBN, page 142:
      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, Robyn Collins, quoting Chris Faulkner, Prepare to Be a Teen Millionaire, Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Health Communications, Inc., →ISBN, page 187:
      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, Tim Converse, Joyce Park, PHP 6 and MySQL 6 Bible, Wiley, →ISBN, pages 696–697:
      So the happiest solution possible is to find out that gd is already installed, and PHP already has gd 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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