Offshore hosting industry has rapidly evolved from an annoying little brother to the majority mainland hosting giants in the leading hosting service provider catering to many small, and average business projects that, by their nature, have to have a higher amount of privacy and data security than most mainstream providers can offer.
Projects like electronic money (e-currency) services, high-yield investment funds and other merchants in developing and western world alike have always been picking offshore servers rather than a standard hosting solution. Others include purely informative websites that demand more freedom (e.g. political) for the kind of web contents they should publish online.
Which offshore hosting prefer to choose?
Rapid response to this question would be "the one it is possible to afford"... at the same time there are many important considerations you need to keep in mind.
From my experience, offshore shared and VPS (virtual server) solutions are much less stable and reliable than their mainstream hosting counterparts (like say, a shared intend on a U.S. or U.K. server). The grounds behind this can be the nature of the websites themselves hosted on such servers.
Offshore anonymous shared plans usually attract lots of "fly-by-night" scammers who often abuse the servers in various ways and might bring about a DDOS attack from the competitor or vacation afflicted with their websites.
An offshore VPS on the dedicated IP may be a better option but here again, "bad boys" may bring down MySQL, consume all RAM or CPU power making all other intends on the server suffer. Additionally, overall slower network connections may only make these problems worse.
An offshore dedicated server is actually all means the best choice. If the business online has enough chance to generate big money in monthly sales, why can you opt for a shared or VPS plan and risk losing your visitors as a result of likely downtime or slow connection speed? In those cases, offshore dedicated hosting is a better alternative which will offer you reassurance.