• smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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    22 hours ago

    They are using a hosting provider - their dad.

    “The cloud” is also just a bunch of machines in a basement. Lots of machines in lots of “basements”, but still.

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      “hosting provider” in this instance I think means “do you pay them (whoever has the hardware in their possession) a monthly/quarterly/yearly fee”

      otherwise you can also say “well ACTUALLY your isp is providing the ability to host on the wan so they are the real hosting provider” and such…

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      18 hours ago

      Their dad is not a hosting provider. I mean, maybe he is, but that would be really weird.