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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 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...

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 hours ago

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