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Hoster vs Moderator - What's the difference?

hoster | moderator |

As nouns the difference between hoster and moderator

is that hoster is a provider of online hosting, especially web hosting while moderator is someone who moderates.

hoster

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing, Internet, neologism) A provider of online hosting, especially web hosting.
    • Make sure your hoster provides a fast FTP access to your files.
  • * 2004 , (Reuters) news item at (CNet News) , 25 September 2004:
    • Microsoft sues Web hoster over spam

    Synonyms

    * hosting company * web host, webhost

    Derived terms

    * web hoster, webhoster

    Noun

    • Verb

    (head)

    • moderator

    English

    (wikipedia moderator)

    Alternative forms

    * moderatour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • someone who moderates
  • * Walton
    • Angling was a moderator of passions.
  • # an arbitrator or mediator
  • # the chair or president of a meeting etc.
  • the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church
  • (physics) a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission
  • a device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
  • (UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
  • * '>citation
  • (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
  • A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.