Roller Network

Roller Network was founded in 2004 by Seth Mattinen, then a Computer Science student at the University of Nevada, Reno, as a side project away from analyzing algorithms. Our first service was a "free for all" backup mail exchanger. As the number of features grew, a donation was required to access new features. The customer base continued to grow through word of mouth to the point where donations simply weren't keeping up with demand, so the free model was discontinued in December 2007. Today, Roller Network is home to thousands of mail and DNS domains with a focus on leaving as much control as possible in the hands of the customer. Roller Network was originally created to address the needs of small and medium businesses and technically savvy customers. We are one of few mail service providers to break from the per-domain or per-user pricing scheme and offer single price point mail services. We are also one of the first to offer IPv6 enabled hosted mail services. In Fall of 2009 we left our longtime home in Sparks, NV and sought to build a facility-centric colocation datacenter in Reno, NV. Since the beginning our mail services were self hosted due to a lack of proper local hosting options, so we elected to create our own facility and eventually opened it up for retail colocation. With our colocation facility, Roller Network was able to offer a range of services that weren't found in Northern Nevada at the time. Our facility is designed to focus on equipment first and foremost. In 2010, we extended our network through the Truckee Meadows through a handful of microwave sites. From those sites we offered Metro Ethernet and wireless broadband for businesses. In 2020 we started to scale back our basic ISP services to focus on colocation and point-to-point microwave. Roller Network strives to provide a high level of service in operating our own facility: power distribution, backup generator, site controls, switching, and routing. If something is not quite right, we can fix it. If you have a question, we can answer it. If we need something, we can do it. We diversify our fiber access with multiple physical and logical providers with independent paths. We employ online UPS systems. Our generator is an automatic diesel and gets exercised, on load, twice a month, proving its availability. Our cooling systems are redundant with an environmentally friendly economizer system. If there's a problem - since no system is perfect - we believe in transparency during the resolution process.