What is meant by OFFSHORE HOSTING?

[John23]

An offshore host is where there are servers that run/host a website except its located in another country. Many people use this because it is much harder to shut down legally and harder to contact.

[Smith22]

The term "offshore" indicates a kind of tax avoidance and sketchy business policy. At times, an integral part of the business world is Offshore Web hosting. A perfect example of where it is preferred is North America. As only outside of American soil the issues of privacy and security standards can be delivered, it is thus given preference.

[invendio]

The term offshore can have different meanings dependent on who you are and where you live as already indirectly stated. To me it is a term covering not just hosting and it is well know for moving activities to countries in which service can be maintained at a significantly lower cost compared to e.g. North America and Europe. Offshore within IT (covering web hosting as well) typically means India or counties far away on other continents while near-shore is related to buying services at lover price in countries closer to where you live, e.g. Eastern Europe if you life in Denmark like I do.

[carlhenson]

Offshore hosting basically means a hosting that is located on another country. If the site is for the US and your hosting is located on New Zealand then you've got an offshore host.

The reason it was preferred by those who want to host illegal and copyrighted stuffs is that US authorities has no authority in controlling other countries in shutting down its servers.

[tomy]

Places that dont care about warez etc and let you host warez sites.


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[josephsmith187]

Offshore hosting is a term used for services that allow you to host your website on countries across the sea (not in America). The most common offshore hosting locations are India, Panama, Netherlands and Malaysia. People from around the globe use offshore hosting services to upload websites that are considered to be illegal in the United States or other countries. Such sites include torrent trackers (ThePirateBay, IsoHunt), warez forums (ProjectW, Warez-BB), music and file search engines, websites to watch copyrighted TV shows and movies online, as well as any other site that is in the gray side of the law.

[alexclark]

offshore means, when the provider is located outside of the usa.
and onshore is located in usa.

[josephsmith187]

OFFSHORE servers are outside USA.they are not affected by DMCA complaints about copyrighted content.