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Hosting

A service offered by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) or dedicated hosting company usually consisting of storage on their servers for websites and email. Hosting packages vary considerably depending on the storage capacity offered and support for various web "back-end" technologies such as databases. Hosts normally include domain registration.

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Database, Hosting, Internet, Storage, Website

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