ITPEC FE Morning April 2018 Question 64

The right to use a server prepared by the provider is lent to users — in hosting, the provider owns the server and the user rents its use.

A hosting service (server rental) supplies servers that the provider has bought and installed in its own facility, together with the network line and power. The user runs its website or system on them for a fee. The server may be shared by many users (shared hosting) or dedicated to one (dedicated hosting), and the provider looks after the hardware, monitors it and handles failures.

Answer (c)

Why not others:

• •(a) — exclusive use of a high-performance server by a single user is supported; it is the dedicated-server plan of hosting
• •(b) — monitoring the servers and handling their incidents is the provider's job in hosting, since the provider owns the equipment
• •(d) — users bringing their own servers into the provider's facility is housing (colocation), where the provider supplies only space, power and the line

Key rule: Ask who owns the server: the provider's server lent to users is hosting; the user's own server placed in the provider's facility is housing.

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