Overseas hosting is considered to be offshore.
Offshore hosting means hosting in Europe and Eastern Europe.
offshore hosting is considered to get hosting in a country in which you don't have to comply with internet laws, hosting in UK isn't offshore, getting hosting in Malaysia is offshore though
Sometimes hosting further from you is good and bad. Good for other customers who live around the world but bad connectivity. Sometimes the connection is fine. But why do you want offshore?
Why would an American, with an American audience, for example, want a server located somewhere in Europe or overseas? It makes absolutely no sense. Let's quadruple the ping times for absolutely no reason at all!! Yay!!
Everybody here knows that offshore servers are sought out for illegal material and nulled scripts, whether they want to admit it or not.
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Offshore hosting can be used for meeting not very legal goals.
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Offshore hosting is good, since sometimes you don't have too much freedom to do anything you want, and because someone posted a link to a warez on your US hosted website, you may lose it. Offshore might give you a bit of more freedom to clean your site.
Offshore hosting provider allows you to host all type of data in your account without any restrictions. The main benefit of the Offshore hosting is it provides International bandwidth for your site.