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by eurleif 215 days ago
Off-topic, but there are six different people using the word "hoster" in this thread. I've never heard that word used instead of "host" or "hosting service" before, and yet here it's somehow prevalent. I feel like I'm having a stroke, or I just stepped into an alternate universe. Where did you all pick up that word?
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This happens often in comment threads, one comment uses an uncommon word and the entire thread goes along with it.
That's just English being irregular. One that hosts websites should be called a hoster in principle :)
Host is both a noun and a verb. (The host can host a party.)

Hoster is new to me too.

But I get it as a pattern. (If you dine at the party then you are a diner.)