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Re:An off-grid social network by ghkbrew on Friday April 07, 2017 @06:25AM (#14058577)
As a fan of both linguistic games and playing devil's advocate, how about:

"server"

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Re:An off-grid social network by gyros on Friday April 07, 2017 @08:10AM (#14058970)
6 characters, sorry ;-)
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Re:An off-grid social network by Vendan on Friday April 07, 2017 @08:34AM (#14059104)
"host"... 4 characters, beats cloud...?
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Re:An off-grid social network by losteric on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:56AM (#14060737)
"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).

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