The name says it all — RogerLe.com has always been more than a business. It's a partnership.
In 1994, the web was a whisper. Most people had never heard of it. Businesses didn't have websites. "Going online" meant something only universities, governments, and a handful of forward-thinking companies were doing.
That's exactly when we found it — and each other.
Roger was a journalist in Lisbon, Portugal, working for Nova Gente magazine. His editor handed him an unusual assignment: write about this new thing called the Internet. To report on it, he had to use it. And once he was in, there was no going back.
Across the Atlantic, in the United States, his future wife had gotten Internet access through her workplace. She logged on out of curiosity. He logged on for a story.
They met on IRC — Internet Relay Chat — on channel #Brasil of the Undernet network, somewhere between the end of 1994 and the beginning of 1995. A journalist from Lisbon and a human resources professional in the United States, talking in real time across an ocean, through a technology most of the world hadn't even discovered yet.
Think about what that means: we didn't just find the internet early — we built our lives around it before it was mainstream. That's not a footnote to our story. It's the whole foundation of why we know what we're doing.
By 1996, they had decided their future was together — which meant Roger making the move to the United States.
Leaving journalism behind wasn't easy. But Roger had already fallen in love with something new: Linux, servers, and the architecture of the web itself. He bought books. He taught himself. He learned to manage Linux servers, program in Perl (and later PHP and other languages), and understand the infrastructure that was quietly becoming the backbone of modern life.
In October 1996, he registered RogerLe.com — one of the earliest hosting companies specifically serving the Portuguese and Brazilian communities online. The internet was young, the community was underserved, and Roger was ready to build something for them.
That domain is still here. Still running. Nearly 30 years later.
RogerLe.com has seen it all. The dot-com boom. The bust. Broadband replacing dial-up. PHP replacing Perl. Cloud computing changing everything — and then not changing everything quite as much as predicted.
Through every wave, the company kept going.
Along the way, Roger spent years working in technology across some of America's most recognized corporations — in telecommunications, networking, logistics, and financial services. Good jobs, demanding environments, and the kind of real-world infrastructure experience you simply can't get from a tutorial. Every role made him a better engineer. Every role made RogerLe.com stronger.
RogerLe.com was born to serve the Portuguese and Brazilian communities — people who wanted reliable hosting from someone who understood their language, their culture, and their needs. That connection is still part of who we are today.
Whether you're in Lisbon, São Paulo, or anywhere in between, you'll find a host here that speaks your language — literally and technically.
Roger and his wife are retired now. They travel Europe in their motorhome with their dog Jolie, exploring new places and living life on their own terms. The company they started nearly three decades ago quietly hums along — running on custom-built infrastructure that we designed, built, and control entirely ourselves.
The WordPress theme you're looking at right now? Built in-house. The helpdesk system? Built in-house. The billing platform? Also built in-house. No third-party subscriptions, no vendor lock-in, no "sorry, that's our platform's limitation." Just clean, fast, reliable hosting on infrastructure we know inside and out.
We're not chasing growth. We're not trying to be the biggest hosting company on the internet. We host a select number of clients, and we like it that way — every site gets real attention from someone who actually knows what they're doing.
If you want a faceless mega-host with a ticket system and a 48-hour response time, there are plenty of options out there.
If you want a host that has been around since 1996, runs on enterprise-grade custom infrastructure, speaks Portuguese, and genuinely cares whether your website is up — you've found the right place.
RogerLe.com. Here since October 1996. Still building something better.
