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title: "Your Noiz Hosting Account: an Overview"
description: "A high-level overview of your Noiz hosting account: the client area and your control panel, and how to start building your website and email."
url: "https://docs.noiz.ie/getting-started/getting-started-with-noiz-hosting/"
section: "Start Here"
categories:
  - "Getting Started"
last_reviewed: "1 August 2026, against the current Noiz client area and signup flow"
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# Your Noiz Hosting Account: an Overview

This guide gives you a high-level overview of your Noiz hosting account. It helps you start building your website, get your email working, and find your way around the tools included with your plan.

**Last reviewed:** 1 August 2026, against the current Noiz client area and signup flow. It is kept current as the flow changes.

Your Noiz account has two parts. The **client area** at [noiz.co.za](https://www.noiz.co.za) is where you manage your billing, your domains, and your support tickets. Your **hosting control panel** is where you build your website and manage your mailboxes. Depending on your plan, that panel is **Plesk**, **DirectAdmin**, or **ISPConfig**. Both parts are reached from the same login on the Noiz website.

**Table of contents**

- [Set up a website](#set-up-a-website)
- [Manage a domain](#manage-a-domain)
- [Manage emails](#manage-emails)
- [Get help](#get-help)
- [More tools](#more-tools)

If you have not signed up for hosting yet, choose a hosting package on the [Noiz website](https://www.noiz.co.za) and follow the checkout steps. If you get stuck at any point, contact Noiz support using one of the methods in [Get help](#get-help) below.

## Set up a website

Getting a site live comes down to three things: a domain that points at Noiz, the website files themselves, and a secure HTTPS connection. Start here.

- [Set up a domain for your website](/getting-started/how-to-set-up-a-domain-for-your-website/), so visitors can reach your site by name.
- Build a new site. WordPress is the usual starting point. You can [install WordPress manually](/wordpress/how-to-manually-install-wordpress/), or use the one-click installer in your control panel.
- Moving an existing site across? See [how to migrate a WordPress site to Noiz Hosting](/wordpress/how-to-migrate-a-wordpress-site-to-noiz-hosting/).
- Every Noiz hosting plan includes free SSL certificates (Let's Encrypt), so your site can be served securely over HTTPS without any extra purchase.

## Manage a domain

Your domain name and your hosting are separate things: the domain is the address, the hosting is where the site lives. These guides cover choosing, registering, and pointing a domain.

- [Choose the right domain name](/domains-dns/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name-for-your-website/) for your website.
- [Check whether a domain name is available](/domains-dns/how-to-check-if-a-domain-name-is-available/) before you register it.
- [Claim your free .co.za domain](/domains-dns/your-free-coza-domain-with-noiz-shared-hosting/) with a Noiz shared hosting plan.
- [Point your domain to Noiz Hosting](/domains-dns/how-to-point-your-domain-to-noiz-hosting/) so it serves your new site.
- [Update your registrant (Domain Guardian) details](/domains-dns/what-is-the-domain-guardian-registrant-contact-and-how-to-update-it/).
- [Look up who owns a domain](/domains-dns/what-is-the-whois-lookup-service/) with the WHOIS service.
- [Understand top-level domains (TLDs)](/domains-dns/what-is-a-tld-top-level-domain/) such as .com, .co.za, and .ie.

If you are pointing a domain by nameserver, Noiz client hosting uses `ns1.noiz.co.za` and `ns2.noiz.co.za`.

## Manage emails

Mailboxes are created inside your hosting control panel. Once a mailbox exists, add it to your phone and computer using the setup guides below.

- Create a mailbox in your control panel: [Plesk](/plesk/how-to-create-an-email-address-in-plesk/), [DirectAdmin](/directadmin/how-to-create-an-email-account-in-directadmin/), or [ISPConfig](/ispconfig/how-to-create-an-email-mailbox-in-ispconfig/).
- [Set up email on iPhone or iPad](/email/how-to-set-up-email-on-iphone-or-ipad/).
- [Set up email on Android](/email/how-to-set-up-email-on-android/).
- [Set up email in Microsoft Outlook](/email/how-to-set-up-email-in-microsoft-outlook/).
- [Set up email in Mozilla Thunderbird](/email/how-to-set-up-email-in-thunderbird/).
- Email not arriving or being rejected? Work through the [email troubleshooting guide](/email/why-is-my-email-not-working-an-email-troubleshooting-guide/).

## Get help

Noiz support is there whenever a guide does not cover your exact situation.

- [Contact Noiz support](/getting-started/how-to-contact-noiz-for-support/) to see the available channels, response times, and what your plan covers.
- Browse the full [Noiz knowledgebase](https://www.noiz.co.za/knowledgebase/) for step-by-step guides on hosting, email, domains, and WordPress.

## More tools

- Back up your website before you make big changes: [Plesk](/plesk/how-to-generate-a-full-backup-in-plesk/) or [DirectAdmin](/directadmin/how-to-create-and-download-a-full-backup-of-your-account-in-directadmin/).
- Running WordPress? See how to [speed up your WordPress site](/wordpress/how-to-speed-up-your-wordpress-site/) and work through the [WordPress security checklist](/wordpress/wordpress-security-checklist/).
- Manage your billing and [pay with Stripe](/billing/how-to-pay-your-invoice-with-stripe/), and read how to [save (and make) money on your web hosting](/billing/how-to-save-and-make-money-on-your-web-hosting/).

Still not sure where to start? [Contact Noiz support](/getting-started/how-to-contact-noiz-for-support/) and the team will point you in the right direction.

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Source: https://docs.noiz.ie/getting-started/getting-started-with-noiz-hosting/