Why is Offshore Hosting expensive? Offshore Hosting FAQs.

Why is Offshore Hosting expensive? The secret is, it isn’t.

Actually, Offshore Hosting isn’t expensive at all. In fact, I would argue that you can get great Offshore Hosting for about the same price as you would pay for your domestic or local web hosting.

In addition, Hosting providers can offer the same choices of web hosting services for your WordPress website as a local or domestic host can.

However, unlike your local or domestic web hosting providers, Offshore Hosting providers can also offer a variety of other services that you may find come in handy one day, if not today. These other services come at no extra cost as well, which I will go into more.

So if you’ve been thinking about using an Offshore Hosting provider for your WordPress website, then read on.

In this post, I’m going to go over how and why Offshore Hosting is no more or less expensive than your local or domestic hosting as well as how you can benefit from Offshore Hosting and answer some other frequently asked questions regarding Offshore Hosting.

What does Offshore Hosting mean?

Offshore Hosting is a term used to describe web hosting providers that are located outside of your home country’s jurisdiction. 

Though, it’s mainly used to describe web hosting providers located outside the United States. 

These Offshore Hosting providers are not subjected to US laws, including the US DMCA laws, in particular.

Is Offshore Hosting legal?

Offshore Hosting is perfectly legal. Unless of course, you are a citizen and are located in one of the few, last dictatorships in the world where it is not. 

But in general, for the majority of us, getting Offshore Hosting for your WordPress website is perfectly legal and becoming more and more popular as the yoke of political correctness, infringements on freedom of speech, etc. become tightened in what was normally referred to as free democracies.

Benefits of Offshore Hosting vs Domestic Hosting.

There are a variety of benefits website owners can get from Offshore Hosting. These are just a few of the more important ones are:

• Privacy.
• Anonymity.
• Anonymous Payment options (including crypto like Bitcoin.).
• Stronger Freedom of Speech laws and protections.
• Outside of US, UK, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand, (the “5 eyes”) jurisdictions.
• Price.

If I have a website where I feel that the content may be either too controversial and/or a target for frivolous DMCA takedown notices in order to stop me from exercising my freedom of speech rights, I know that I have an Offshore Hosting provider that can give me the privacy and freedom of speech protection I’m entitled to.

This, along with state of the art servers and equipment, clean and abundant energy supplies (so no worries about down time), support and service for me to get my website up, running and out of reach of those looking to oppress it. 

That Offshore Web Hosting provider is Orangewebsite.com.

Why is Offshore Hosting not free?

We all have to keep the lights on, food on the table and a roof over our heads. Web Hosting companies, whether they are local and domestic or offshore have the same issues. 

In other words, there is no such thing as a “free lunch“.

However, you may be able to find an Offshore Hosting provider who will offer you free hosting for your WordPress website, just like you might from a local or domestic hosting provider. 

But, as you may already know, many free hosting plans are either temporary to get you to sign up for a web hosting provider’s plan or they can be quite restrictive and almost always require you to put advertising all over your website which may contain content, etc. that you may not approve of. 

Worst of all, you won’t even get compensated for it either.

Which is the best country for Offshore Hosting?

If you haven’t been able to tell already, I’m quite a big fan of Icelandic Offshore Hosting. 

That’s right, Iceland is one of the most popular Offshore Web Hosting locations in the world and for good reason.

• First, they have strict privacy laws.
• They have strong freedom of speech protections.
• They are a DMCA ignored hosting country. This means they don’t respond to frivolous DMCA take down notices.
• They have a large and fluent as well as educated English-speaking population. So no communication issues.
• One the cleanest energy countries in the world, which powers their servers through geothermal power.
• They actually have rule of law, unlike other less advanced Offshore Hosting countries like the ones you would find in Eastern Europe or Asia.
• Cost competitive with domestic or local web hosting providers. In fact, many of their plans are actually cheaper than some of the plans you would find on more popular domestic or local web hosting providers.

What is DMCA ignored hosting?

DMCA ignored hosting is basically a web hosting provider located in a country outside the jurisdiction of the United States which does not acknowledge US DMCA takedown notices. 

In other words, unlike their local or domestic hosting counterparts, they’re not scared of US DMCA takedown notices. 

Therefore, they won’t be instantly closing down your site at the drop of a hat, where they consider you guilty until proven innocent in all matters DMCA related. 

This is unlike US-based web hosting providers who will think nothing of shutting down your entire website when issued a DMCA takedown notice, whether that notice is frivolous notice or not.

Offshore Hosting isn’t expensive, a summary.

As you can see, Offshore Hosting isn’t really expensive at all. Actually, if you check out the prices on Orangewebsite.com including their various web hosting plans, you’ll find their pricing actually quite competitive to even the most popular self-hosted web hosting providers.

In addition, you also get many of the Offshore Hosting benefits that I have gone through above, all at no extra cost to you. 

Wouldn’t it be great if local and domestic web hosting providers could not only offer a great web hosting experience at affordable prices, but protect your privacy and freedom of speech rights? 

Moreover, you also get built in DMCA ignored hosting, which can protect you from frivolous DMCA take down notices. 

So no more jumping through hoops to get your website back up and running on the internet over a frivolous DMCA takedown notice. 

Just think of the time, aggravation and most of all money, those benefits will save you alone. For me, it’s a no-brainer. 

Offshore Hosting your WordPress website is not only a great option, but an inexpensive one as well. In fact, Offshore Hosting may become the future of web hosting in general, if the current encroachments on freedom of speech trends continue in countries where it is supposedly a right.