Here are three terms to get you started in testing your hosting-terms’ IQ:

  1. What is Hosting?
    1. The company famous for the creation of delicacies such as the Twinkie.
    2. Assigning customers to tables in an establishment & dividing the dining area into areas of responsibility for the various servers on duty.
    3. Providing storage space on a server to allow accessibility to websites on the internet.
  2. What is DNS?
    1. The Internet system to translate names into IP addresses.
    2. Do Not Support. The credo of most hosting companies today.
    3. The current #1 artist on the R&B charts. Famous for the song, “Hard Wired, Soft Shoe”.
  3. What is a Domain?
    1. A tasty Chinese dish, consisting of noodles, vegetables, meat, and occasionally wontons.
    2. A human readable name used to redirect users to the numerical IP address of a hosted website.
    3. The dark abode of Mistress Black Rose, which should never be entered.

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