Hosting services
In the Digital Services Act (DSA), certain obligations with which the service providers must comply have been imposed on online hosting services.
What are hosting services?
Hosting services are online services that store the information sent by users upon request. Hosting services include e.g. cloud services, web hosting services, paid referencing services on search engines or other services that enable the sharing of information and content online, including file storage and sharing.
In the Digital Services Act (DSA), hosting services are seen as one subcategory of intermediary services. Intermediary services also include mere conduit services, such as providing internet connections to end users or caching, such as content delivery networks.
The DSA applies to intermediary services provided within the EU. This means that service providers located outside the EU must also comply with the DSA if they offer their services within the EU.