gehoste

Gehoste is the past participle and adjectival form derived from the Dutch verb hosten, meaning to host. In IT and web contexts, gehost describes a resource that is hosted by a third-party provider rather than locally managed. The base past participle is gehost; when used as an adjective before a noun it typically takes the form gehoste, as in gehoste website or gehoste applicatie. In other contexts, gehoste can refer to events or services that are hosted by an organization.

The term entered Dutch use through the influence of English, particularly in the domains of web hosting and cloud services. It is commonly contrasted with zelf gehost, meaning self-hosted, to distinguish externally hosted services from self-managed ones.

Examples of usage include statements such as: De website is gehost door een externe provider. Deze gehoste oplossing wordt via een cloudprovider aangeboden. Gehoste bestanden, gehoste databases en gehoste applicaties komen regelmatig voor in projectdocumentatie en technische beschrijvingen.

In practice, the exact form depends on grammar: predicative usage often uses gehost, while attributive adjectival usage uses gehoste. Gehoste terminology is standard in Dutch IT vocabulary and is widely understood in Dutch-speaking areas.

See also: hosting, webhosting, cloud hosting, self-hosting, provider.