cohost

plural cohosts · alternative co-host

1. A joint host alongside another (compare costar).

   A morning TV anchor in Oklahoma apologized a day after likening her black cohost to a gorilla.

   2019 August 27, Mallory Simon, “TV anchor apologizes after comparing black cohost to a gorilla”, in CNN

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   It’s exactly what you’d expect from the cohosts of “Door, Bumper, Clear,” the weekly podcast featuring Griffin, Majors and Kraft, along with host Casey Boat and producer Jason Schultz, with the podcast produced by Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Dirty Mo Media company. It’s this kind of candor that has made DBC so popular with an almost cultlike following.

   2022 March 11, Jordan Bianchi, “‘Door, Bumper, Clear’: The unfiltered NASCAR podcast that isn’t afraid to speak its mind”, in The New York Times

present singular third person cohosts · participle present cohosting · participle past cohosted · past cohosted · alternative co-host

1. To act as a joint host.
2. transitivecomputingTo store data or applications on a shared server (as in web hosting).

   However, it is not a Microsoft-recommended installation path and you should build your CAs on their own servers; try not to cohost them with other roles whenever possible.

   2016, Jordan Krause, Mastering Windows Server 2016, →ISBN, page 115

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   Generally speaking, in a shared computing system, such as a server farm shared by multiple cohosted Web sites, common resources can be categorized into two different types: those shared in time and those shared in space.

   2006, Hossein Bidgoli, Handbook of Information Security

   If you choose to cohost specific components on the same server (e.g., VMM server and database), please keep in mind that each has its own performance characteristics and resource requirements.

   2011, Michael Michael, Hector Linares, Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, →ISBN, page 52

   For small and midsize scenarios, which commonly address an environment with a small number of users and few packages in a single geographical site, you might cohost all of the roles on a single server.

   2015, Byron Wright, Brian Svidergol, Virtualizing Desktops and Apps with Windows Server 2012 R2 Inside Out, →ISBN