hostee

English

Etymology

host +‎ -ee

Noun

hostee (plural hostees)

1. (Internet) A person whose content is hosted on a domain owned by somebody else.
   • 1999, manda, “I don't want to be another cihost casualty”, in alt.www.webmaster (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, BabyCarrot, “Hanson fanfiction domain”, in alt.fan.hanson (Usenet):

     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.

   • 2008, Cal Henderson, Building Scalable Web Sites:

     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.