Offshore virtual private server (offshore VPS) refers to website servers hosted far-off from the country of your business operations. While you can get your websites hosted in your business locale, several reasons make offshore VPS hosting one of the excellent hosting solutions for many businesses – from startups to well-established corporations.
Often, offshore VPS provides leeway to maneuvering over stringent cyber laws in your home country or the country of your business operations and cutting down on operation costs by avoiding hefty taxes. Besides that, it allows you to enjoy high website performance, high uptime, and other advantages that come with highly developed IT infrastructure not provided by your country but available in other countries.
Although the term “offshore” makes the difference, you can use an offshore virtual private server just in the same way you would use your locally hosted VPS. However, it offers more flexibility in your business than you’d have when hosted locally due to the prevailing stringent cyber laws and poor IT infrastructure. Often, there are many reasons for hosting your sites, databases, and online applications offshore. But the most common reasons include the following:
- highly advanced IT infrastructure in another country where more uptime is guaranteed. Such countries include the Netherlands;
- hosting copyrighted & DMCA content;
- hosting hacking websites;
- adult content hosting.