Lemonade.Net's mission is to assist Small to Medium sized enterprises, web developers, and individuals operate reliable Internet based presences for their businesses. We’re not out to be the biggest, we are happy being a small high quality Internet provider. We want our customers to worry about running their businesses, not wondering if the web site and the e-commerce database were backed up last night. That’s our responsibility!
The name Lemonade.Net was created as a joke back in 1999. Rick Lemon, founder of Lemonade.Net, was a Technical Instructor at Boston University's Corporate Education Center at the time. The Executive Director joked about creating a technical resource for students with Rick Lemon providing the content. He joked about calling it Lemonade. Rick, never leaving a joke unused, immediately registered the domain name Lemonade.Net and began hosting web sites on shared servers at MV Communications. In July 2000, Lemonade.Net moved its servers into space owned by Millennia Logix, Inc. of Nashua, New Hampshire. Destek was a neighbor in the building and provided Internet connections for both operations. In October 2007 Millennia Logix, Inc. and Lemonde.Net moved operations into our current data center provider. We are now located in Salem, New Hampshire with redundant fiber connections to Internet cross connects in Boston.
Rick has been in the Information Technology industry since 1978. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science in 1980, and broke from the mainframe world into personal computers and local area networks in 1982. He earned his first industry certifications from IBM in 1985, Novell in 1990, and Microsoft in 1993. He has also held certifications on Lotus Notes and other web related technologies. Today he maintains several Microsoft certifications including the Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Microsoft Solution Framework certifications.
Since 1982, Rick has been providing IT consulting services to many organizations. Beginning in 1990, Rick taught thousands of IT professionals on topics ranging from network administration to network design, and network engineering. He also instructed on several application development technologies including Web development including Microsoft and Java technologies, Microsoft SQL Server including Data Warehousing topics, and various programming environments including Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Basic, Lotus Notes, and Novell's Netware operating systems. Rick was one of a hand full of instructors around the world who taught Novell server-side development technologies for compaines including IBM.