Infrastructure
Hosting
Shared hosting on servers we run, Cloud servers with root access, dedicated servers, colocation, and domains with DNS. Every plan publishes its caps, and a weekly backup is included on every shared plan.
[noiz] hosting | cybersecurity | software | support
More than a cybersecurity company.
Noiz is an organised cypherpunk movement focused on digital privacy, software freedom, open source, decentralisation and censorship resistance. Noiz does hosting, cybersecurity and software, built on Free and open-source software, for businesses and individuals who value privacy and control over their own infrastructure.
At a glance
- Does
- Hosting, cybersecurity and software
- Operates from
- South Africa and Ireland
- Shared servers
- The Samrand facility, Gauteng
- Runs on
- GNU/Linux and Free software
- Company
- Noiz Cybersecurity (Pty) Ltd
- Accepts
- Card, EFT and Monero
The name
A network of independent zones.
Noiz stands for Network of Independent Zones. Each zone keeps its autonomy while taking part in a wider network, interoperating without surrendering its independence. The idea comes from federated free-software communities.
The name works on three levels at once. Technical: a federated network of independent zones. Philosophical: individual freedom set against the consolidation of power. Metaphorical: noise transmitted against a signal.
The signal
The signal is a control system. There is a power differential between the people who transmit information, world views and instructions and the people who receive them. Noiz is the noise against that signal, static that drowns out a broadcast, and the company exists to disrupt that power differential in the service of human freedom. Nothing more.
Our mission is to use technology to enhance human freedom, countering centralised control and promoting decentralised systems that place power back in the hands of users. Our vision is to enable the future of human freedom, recognising that technology can either demolish artificial walls or lay the foundation for an Orwellian state.
[noiz] | disrupt the signal
What Noiz does
Hosting, cybersecurity and software.
Three disciplines on one stack: GNU/Linux, with Free and open-source software wherever there is a sound choice. Plans, prices and figures live in the store; this page describes the work.
Security
Cybersecurity
Protection is built into the platform we run, and the parts that need a decision from you are sold plainly: Email Security for the mail on a domain hosted with Noiz, Backup for servers and workstations under terms agreed before you buy, a managed VPN for your devices, and Cloudflare in front of a site as a hosting add-on. What each covers is written on its store page.
Services
Software
Open-source applications run and kept for you: WordPress Care for a site on a Noiz plan or hosted elsewhere, Managed Odoo, Private Email, Nextcloud accounts on the service we run, and ERPNext on a Cloud server. Development and integration work is quoted.
WordPress · Odoo · Nextcloud · ERPNext · Private Email
Support
Support is how the three are delivered, not a fourth thing to buy.
Tickets go straight to Noiz, the company that runs the servers. When it helps to look at a problem on your computer, the remote support page says how a session is agreed and what it costs. Work on a Linux server, whether a Noiz Cloud server or one hosted elsewhere, is Linux administration, scoped in a ticket. What Noiz does not do is written down as well: the scope page sets out what we support and what we decline.
How Noiz works
Run by the company that runs the servers.
Our shared servers are in the Samrand facility, Gauteng, and we run, patch and watch them ourselves. Tickets go straight to the people who run them.
- Every server we run for you runs GNU/Linux, with Free and open-source software wherever there is a sound choice.
- Each plan's cores and memory are its caps, with no hidden headroom and no quiet exceptions.
- A weekly backup is included on every shared plan and kept off site.
- Shared hosting has no fixed term: pay monthly or annually, and the cancellation policy says how and when to cancel.
- Hosting and management are separate lines on your invoice, and either can exist without the other.
- No VAT added: the price shown is the price you pay. Card, EFT and Monero are accepted.
- Two jurisdictions: South Africa under POPIA, and Ireland and the EU under GDPR, served from noiz.ie. The privacy policy and security statement for this site are in the legal centre.
- Moving from another host? Open a ticket and Noiz will tell you what the move involves.
Values
Four values, each with an obligation.
The cypherpunk inheritance shows up as restraint, not theatre: privacy as a right, cryptography as a tool, and a refusal to treat the user as a product.
- Privacy firstData belongs to the client. Nothing sold, nothing surveilled.
- Open-source foundationBuilt on GNU/Linux and Free and open-source software. No proprietary dependency the client cannot escape.
- Data sovereigntyInfrastructure in known jurisdictions, under stated legal protection: South Africa under POPIA and Ireland under GDPR.
- Direct expert supportTickets go straight to the people who run the servers. No scripted responses, no queue for its own sake.
Contact
Talk to the people who run the systems.
Email opens a ticket, so there is a record of what was asked and what was done; Signal and WhatsApp reach the same people for a short message.
support
01Email [email protected]An email opens a ticket as well 02Signal +27 76 903 4821Messages only, no voice calls 03WhatsApp +353 83 014 7649Messages 04Open a ticketFrom your account, for any Noiz servicereference
01Help centreThe support channels and the public PGP key for encrypted email 02Documentationdocs.noiz.ie, the knowledgebase 03Remote supportHow a session is agreed, and what it costs 04AnnouncementsService notices 05Legal centreTerms, privacy, security statement, acceptable use 06ScopeWhat Noiz does, and what it declinesNoiz Cybersecurity (Pty) Ltd, registration 2023/837453/07. Company details and the governing law are in the legal centre.
