Title: Welcome
Author: Gary Pendergast
Published: 2016-12-04
Last modified: 2023-07-26

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#  Welcome

The hostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that
allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World
Wide Web. team works to improve WordPress’ end-user experience across hosting environments
through industry collaboration and user education.

Want to contribute? Come join us!

 * The team meets in the [#hosting](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/hosting)
   SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
   The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)
   channel each week on Wednesday at 0900 UTC and 1800 UTC. Check out local times
   at [make/meetings](https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/#hosting).
 * [Contribute automated test results](https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/test-results/)
   from your hosting environment, and help build the [test runner](https://github.com/wordpress/phpunit-test-runner/issues)
   and [results page](https://github.com/wordpress/phpunit-test-reporter/issues)!
 * See more details about ongoing projects on the [Team Projects page](https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/team-projects/).

Learn more about hosting WordPress in [the handbook](https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/handbook/).
Feel free to bring up recommendations for changes and additions [in Slack](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/hosting)!

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