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Host

A host is a company that runs your app on its computer, so the app keeps working when yours is switched off.

Also called: hosting, hosting service, the cloud, cloud server

You send it your code, and it keeps the app answering at an address, day and night, whether or not your laptop is open. The cloud is the same thing said vaguely.

You will meet one the day you deploy. Two things change once a host is involved. Your secrets move out of a file on your desk and into the host's own settings, and the copy up there starts empty: your code goes up, the data on your machine does not.

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