The offshore hosting industry has rapidly evolved from being an annoying little brother to most of the mainland hosting giants, to becoming the leading provider of hosting services serving many small and medium sized commercial projects which by their nature, they demand a higher degree of privacy and information security than most major providers. offer.

Projects such as electronic money (electronic currency) services, high-yield investment funds, and various merchants in developing and developed countries alike have long opted for offshore server hosting over a standard hosting solution. Others include purely informational websites that need more freedom (for example, politics) for the type of web content they need to post online.

Which offshore hosting plan to choose?

The short answer to this question would be “the one who can afford”…at the same time, there are some important considerations to keep in mind.

From my experience, shared and VPS (virtual server) offshore solutions are much less stable and reliable than their conventional hosting counterparts (such as a shared plan on a US or UK server). The reason behind this is the nature of the websites themselves hosted on such servers.

Anonymous offshore sharing plans usually attract many “flying” scammers who often abuse the servers in various ways and can even lead to a DDOS attack from a competitor or third party affected by their websites.

An offshore VPS on a dedicated IP may be a better option, but here again, the “bad guys” can bring MySQL down, eat up all your RAM or CPU power, and cause all other plans on the server to suffer. Also, slower network connections in general can only make these problems worse.

An offshore dedicated server is undoubtedly the best option. If your online business has enough potential to generate hundreds of dollars in monthly sales, why would you go for a shared or VPS plan and risk losing your customers due to potential downtime or slow connection speed? In those cases, offshore dedicated hosting is a better alternative that will give you peace of mind.