webhost

noun

Etymology

From web + host.

  1. derived from *gʰóstipotis
  2. derived from hospitem
  3. derived from oste
  4. inherited from hoste
  5. compounded as webhost — “web + host

Definitions

  1. An Internet hosting service that hosts websites for clients.

    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for webhost. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA