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What is offshore hosting?
Offshore hosting means renting servers in another country, chosen for its laws rather than its distance. Here is who uses it, what changes and what does not, and how to choose a host.
Updated 14 November 2026
People pick offshore hosting for privacy, for freedom of speech, or to keep a project out of reach of a legal system they do not live under. The server sits in a country whose laws suit the project, and the host does not need to know who its customer is.
Who uses offshore hosting
- Journalists, activists and writers whose work is unwelcome where they live.
- VPN and proxy services, and people who run their own VPN.
- Crypto projects that want to pay and be paid in crypto.
- Communities and forums that ordinary hosts turn away for being controversial.
- Anyone who would rather not hand over a passport to rent a server.
What changes offshore
- The law of the server's country applies, not the law of the country you live in.
- Notices under foreign laws, such as the American DMCA, carry no legal force. See DMCA ignored hosting, explained.
- Signup and payment can be anonymous: with us an email address and a crypto payment are all it takes.
What does not change
No serious host anywhere keeps malware, phishing, spam, fraud or abuse material online. Offshore hosting protects lawful content that others reject. A host that promises more than that fills its network with neighbours who get whole address ranges blocked, and every site on it suffers.
How to choose an offshore host
- Jurisdiction: outside the EU and the US if that matters to you, and a country whose laws you can live with.
- Complaint handling: a person who reads every complaint, and time for you to answer before anything happens.
- Payment: crypto, with no card processor in between that would ask who you are.
- Stability: a host that will still be here next year. Pay monthly at first.
- Network: clean IP addresses that are not on blocklists, or your email and your visitors pay for it.
- Support: people who answer.
Our offshore locations
Our servers are in Chișinău, Moldova. Bucharest, Amsterdam and Zürich are planned next. See all locations.
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FAQ
Questions
Is offshore hosting legal?
Yes. Renting a server in another country is legal. What you host still has to follow the law of the country where the server is.
Is offshore hosting anonymous?
It can be. With us you sign up with only an email address and pay with crypto, so we never learn your name.
What does tolerant hosting mean?
It means your project stays online. We host what other providers turn away, from free speech sites to VPN services and Tor relays. A person reads every complaint and nothing is taken down by an automated system.
The details are in our acceptable use policy and our refund policy.
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