Why offshore hosting?

[yep]

If you have a legal site, does offshore hosting add another layer of protection for you? Why do people use offshore hosting?

Thx

[BestXXXPorn]

I've wondered the same thing. If you're legal, 2257 compliant, all that... why?

It sucks, latency is through the roof and just presents slower pages and poorer user experience.

[DWB]

Asset protection.

A wise old Buddhist monk once told me, "Don't shit where you eat."

[yep]

I think if you live in the US, you can be nailed even if your server is elsewhere - but it seems like an added layer of protection to go offshore.

[aniloscash]

we have a server in europe and one in the us for the tour so theres a mirror and you access the closest one so europe doesnt have latency issues and the us doesnt have latency issues.