Query of the Day - Archive
This is the archive of the most popular requests at Who is Hosting This? by day. To find out the web hosting provider for each site, just click the individual links.

Friday, May 9, 2008: Who is hosting Metacafe

Metacafe is the largest independent video sharing web site, specializing in short-form original entertainment, where users upload, view and share video clips. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Tel Aviv and New York. Metacafe is privately held and its investors include Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. Metacafe is similar to other top video vewing websites such as YouTube or Dailymotion, but with several key differences. Core differentiators include duplication elimination, Adult content filtering, an 80,000 community member reviewer panel, VideoRank™, and Producer Rewards™. Its VideoRank™ system gauges viewer reactions to videos in order to feature those that prove most popular to its viewers. Additionally, Metacafe pays video creators for original work that has exceeded a certain threshold of both total views and VideoRank score through its Producer Rewards™ Program. The site features short-form videos in a variety of categories, including Animation, Comedy, Entertainment, How To, News and Events, People and Stories, Sports, Video Games and others. Original content is uploaded to the site by independent video creators, small to mid-sized production groups, and major media companies. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, May 2, 2008: Who is hosting DailyMotion

Dailymotion is a video hosting service website, based in Paris, France. Its domain name was registered one month after YouTube (but the site opened one month earlier) with gandi.net, a French internet domain name provider, and at least one name server is based in France with the .fr name extension. The site is well known for its superior video quality in comparison with other flash-enabled video hosting websites. As of January 2008, the site was getting about 16,000 new videos posted daily, and page views in excess of 26 million per day. As of January 2008, Dailymotion had a global Alexa Internet ranking of 38. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, April 26, 2008: Who is hosting YouSendIt

YouSendIt is a web-based pseudo-(SaaS) digital content delivery service provided by YouSentedItt, Inc. It lets users send, receive and track files on-demand. It is an alternative to sending large e-mail attachments, using FTP, and sending CDs or DVDs or tape or USB flash drive via courier. The sender can enter the recipients' e-mail addresses, attach the file and send it; the recipients receive an e-mail notification with a URL that lets them download the file. With more than five million registered users from 220 countries, YouSendIt once transfered over 30,000 GB per day and over 500 million files to date. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, April 19, 2008: Who is hosting RapidShare

RapidShare is a German owned one-click hosting pay- and free-service (with limitations) website that operates from Switzerland and is financed by the subscriptions of paying users. Rapidshare is one of the world’s largest file-hosting sites with millions of files stored on its servers. According to Alexa, Rapidshare.com is currently the 12th most visited website in the world. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

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