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hostee en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis Proto-Italic *hostipotis Latin hospes Old French ostebor. Middle English hoste English host English -ee English hostee From host + -ee.

Meanings

1. (Internet) A person whose content is hosted on a domain owned by somebody else.
   • Hi. Well, I'm starting a Hanson Fanfiction domain, but before I can actually start the process of registering the domain, I need atleast^([sic]) 4 hostees. 1999, BabyCarrot, “Hanson fanfiction domain”, in alt.fan.hanson (Usenet):
   • My main domain (currently) is www.lovesuicide.com and you can see just by looking there's a LOT of stuff on there, some of my hostees themselves take up more than 20 megs of space. 1999, manda, “I don't want to be another cihost casualty”, in alt.www.webmaster (Usenet):
   • Since there's a router port somewhere between your servers and the Internet, you can query it (or your host can if it's shared among multiple hostees) to find out your total incoming and outgoing data rate. 2008, Cal Henderson, Building Scalable Web Sites:

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