Everyone likes to keep more of their money, and with the cost of living rising, recurring bills like web hosting are a sensible place to look for savings. A few small choices can add up over a year. This guide explains the main ways you may be able to reduce what you spend on your Noiz hosting, and one way you might even turn your hosting into a small source of income.
Before you start: the exact discounts, incentives and programmes described below change from time to time, and some may not be running at any given moment. Always confirm the current pricing and promotions on the Noiz website, or ask the Noiz support team, before you make a decision based on this article.
Ways to save on your hosting
Pay annually instead of monthly
Most hosting subscriptions, including shared hosting and managed WordPress plans, can be billed annually rather than monthly. Where Noiz runs an annual-billing discount, paying up front for the year works out cheaper than twelve separate monthly payments. Committing a larger amount in one go can feel daunting, but the saving accrues across the whole year, and you also avoid the small monthly admin of approving each invoice.
To find out whether annual billing currently carries a discount, and how much, check your plan on the Noiz website. If you want to move an existing service from monthly to annual, ask Noiz support to change your billing cycle for you.
Pay with cryptocurrency
Noiz accepts cryptocurrency payments in the client area, alongside card and bank transfer. Some clients prefer crypto for its privacy and its peer-to-peer, borderless nature. From time to time Noiz offers an incentive for settling invoices with cryptocurrency, so it is worth checking whether a discount currently applies to your account.
If you are new to it, see Pay with Monero (XMR) for a step-by-step walk-through of paying a Noiz invoice with privacy-focused digital cash. For vendor-neutral background on how Monero works, getmonero.org is a good place to start. Contact Noiz support to confirm which currencies are accepted and whether any promotion is running.
A way to make money from your hosting
Join the affiliate or referral programme
If Noiz is running an affiliate or referral programme, you can earn credit, or even income, by recommending Noiz to other people. The usual pattern is that you receive a unique link to share with friends, family, clients, or on your website and social media. When someone signs up for a hosting account through your link, you earn a share of what they spend each month. Those earnings are typically added to your account as hosting credit, or paid out to you once they reach a set threshold.
Referral terms and rates change over time, so check the current programme details on the Noiz website, or ask support how to get your referral link.
Putting it together
Used together, an annual billing cycle, a payment method that carries an incentive, and referral credit can meaningfully reduce your yearly hosting cost. An active referrer can eventually cover much, or even all, of their own hosting, and the effect compounds if you run several services with Noiz. The right combination depends on the offers Noiz has in place at the time, so treat this guide as a starting point rather than a fixed price list.
Even if paying up front is not comfortable right now, it can still be worth comparing the total cost of the options: if the combined saving is larger than the cost of spreading the payment, the maths can work in your favour. When in doubt, run the numbers for your own plan before you commit.
Confirm the current offers
To check the latest pricing and promotions, change your billing cycle, set up cryptocurrency payments, or join a referral programme, see the Noiz website or get in touch with the Noiz support team. If you are on a managed plan, support can make most of these changes on your behalf.
