# Aradia. ## Engineering DNA since 1991. We have been building internet infrastructure for over three decades. Before the commercial internet existed, we were already online. Before most people knew what the World Wide Web was, we were running real-time financial transactions and connecting databases on the web. We are not a new company pivoting into AI. We have been here since the beginning. --- # The Genesis — 1991 In August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee from CERN posted on the Usenet newsgroup alt.hypertext about his radical new protocol. At the Ohio Supercomputer Center, alongside our liquid-cooled Cray supercomputer, we quickly pulled the software and installed it on our NeXT Unix server. At the time, we students were primarily using that machine for Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). Berners-Lee called his creation the "World Wide Web." Because our university lab operated on a tight budget, we didn't have access to high-end graphical setups. Instead, I sat in front of a glowing black-and-green monochrome terminal monitor, using a primitive line-mode browser to experiment with this new markup language. To test it out, I coded a simple directory page to rent two apartments to other students. By my own manual count of the servers announcing themselves on the network at the time, that humble directory became roughly website #50 on the early WWW. We routed the site via an NSFNET-based IP address, and by March 1992, we secured hosting through the SRI Network Information Center (SRI-NIC). Realizing this protocol had the potential to transform communication and commerce, a core group of us made the decision to leave university labs behind to build businesses on what we believed would become the commercial Internet. By July 1992, we formally incorporated Aradia Investments in Columbus, Ohio. By 1993, we had moved into our own commercial office space, pushing early network technology to its limits over dedicated T1 lines. That year, we began experimenting with digital credit card membership orders on the Web — years before PayPal or widespread browser-based commerce existed. There was no HTTPS or SSL encryption yet; transactions were conducted over raw HTTP. To make this work, we ran a physical cable from our office window directly to a neighboring bank's credit card terminal system to handle verification. Before the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) became widely adopted, we built a custom interface connecting web requests to our database systems. Using a combination of Unix workstations and desktop PCs, we linked a live dBase database to the Web at a time when static HTML pages were still the norm. From that original green-screen terminal page coded by a naive 21-year-old, we quickly scaled beyond our college-era setups. By the mid 1990s, we operated dedicated servers and pioneered massive online real estate listing databases while most companies still managed their portfolios on paper. Our systems eventually grew to host over $15 billion in commercial properties, including iconic landmarks like the Empire State Building and the Sears Tower. --- # 34 Years of Continuity The single differentiator that no VC-backed AI startup can buy, manufactured strictly through time. Most AI infrastructure companies you encounter today have a whois registration that is one to three years old. They were founded to ride a technology wave. They are burning venture capital trying to prove they will exist next quarter. > Aradia was incorporated in July 1992 as our foundational internet venture. Over the next 34 years, our engineering footprint expanded across global data centers, high-scale web platforms, and smart city infrastructure. We survived the dot-com crash. We survived the 2008 financial crisis. We survived every market correction and technology shift. We are not a pivot. We are bringing 34 years of unbroken infrastructure DNA into the agentic era. --- # Your AI Provider's WHOIS is Their Credibility The private AI market is flooded with companies that want you to trust them with your most sensitive data — your patient records, your legal case files, your trade secrets, your financial models. And many of those companies incorporated two years ago. // Our WHOIS record says 1992. Our corporate filings say 1992. And our engineering DNA started on a Cray supercomputer in 1991. That timeline tells you everything you need to know about our engineering discipline. We aren't figuring out enterprise infrastructure on your dime. We have understood what it means to run critical systems at scale for 34 years. **Whois Record Audit:** > whois aradia.com Domain Name: ARADIA.COM Registry Domain ID: 120147_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Creation Date: 1992-03-24T05:00:00Z Registry Expiry Date: 2030-03-25T04:00:00Z Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC --- # Experienced Engineers. Not Startup Bros. Aradia isn't run by startup founders pivoting to chase an AI trend. It is architected by veterans who understand kernel-level process supervision, Docker networking, CUDA driver conflicts, NVLink bandwidth optimization, and containerized inference stacks. Founder & Chief Architect **David Grieshaber** has been building and scaling technical infrastructure since the early 1990s. A lifelong tech entrepreneur, he previously owned a commercial data center serving 32,000 customers, deploying over 36,000 physical servers to host some of the world's highest-traffic platforms. He has engineered Linux-based architectures that achieved continuous uptime of over 10 years without a single reboot. From holding over 10 issued technology patents to architecting city-scale network topologies, his strategy is focused entirely on stable, hardened, bare-metal performance. [→] Audit David's 34-year engineering footprint on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgrieshaber/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgrieshaber/) The people who try to convince enterprises that a "one-click install" gives you production-grade AI are usually the same people who've never slept on a Data Center floor after debugging a router failure at 2 AM on a Friday night. Our first language is 1/0. > We spent months so you don't have to. We burned through billions of test tokens figuring out what works, what breaks, and how to optimize quantization for your specific footprint. Today, David's workflow is entirely orchestrated alongside "Digital-David" — his custom DGX based AI Agent counterpart that has increased his engineering output and deployment efficiency by 10x. You are not buying hype. You are buying three decades of engineering discipline, radically accelerated by the exact agentic technology we deliver directly to your private metal. --- # Pedigree is just the foundation. Having the right engineering DNA doesn't matter if the hardware doesn't perform. [See The Solution →](/solution) --- **Company:** [Home](/) | [About](/about) | [Solution](/solution) | [Agents](/agents) | [Partner Program](/partners) | [Pricing](/pricing) | [Privacy Policy](/privacy-policy) | [Contact](/contact) **Agent Discovery:** [llms.txt](/llms.txt) [MD Index] | [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt) [Full Site] | [api/pricing.json](/api/pricing.json) | [api/agent-spec.json](/api/agent-spec.json) | [.well-known/mcp.json](/.well-known/mcp.json) | [.well-known/agent-manifest.json](/.well-known/agent-manifest.json) © 1991-> Aradia LLC All rights reserved. No APIs. Physical Iron. Zero Tech Bro Hype.