Gehosteter

Gehosteter is a German-language adjective meaning "hosted," derived from the verb hosten, which in turn comes from the English word host. It describes services, applications, or infrastructure that are run on remote hosting infrastructure provided by a third party, rather than being self-hosted. The term is commonly used in IT, cloud computing, web hosting, and software distribution to indicate that a service is operated by a provider on its own servers and accessed over a network.

Grammatical notes: Gehosteter is the attributive form of the past participle gehostet. The endings follow normal German adjective declension: gehosteter (masculine singular nominative), gehostete (feminine singular nominative or all plural forms), gehostetes (neuter singular nominative). Examples: Der gehostete Server ist zuverlässig. Die gehostete Anwendung skaliert gut. Das gehostete System bietet hohe Verfügbarkeit. Die gehosteten Dienste richten sich an Unternehmen und Endnutzer alike.

Usage considerations: The opposite is selbst gehostet or eigengehostet, used to describe on-premises or user-managed hosting. In marketing and documentation, "gehostete Lösung" signals outsourcing of hosting, while "selbst gehostet" emphasizes that the user operates the hosting environment themselves.

See also: hosting, cloud computing, managed service, self-hosted, on-premises.