3 ms·As a fan of both linguistic games and playing devil's advocate, how about: "server"by ghkbrew 10y agoAs a fan of both linguistic games and playing devil's advocate, how about: "server"gyros 10y ago6 characters, sorry ;-)Vendan 10y ago"host"... 4 characters, beats cloud...?losteric 10y ago"Cloud" refers to a commoditized service, generally highly available / performant. "Host" is generally less ambiguous, referring to a specific thing given the context of the discussion. It's a pronoun for machines (kinda).