Lava.net

01 / SERVICES

30 years of Hawaiʻi internet. Still building.

From dial-up to fiber, Lava.net has evolved with the island. We provide the foundational internet services that every organization needs — hosting, DNS, email, and the tools to verify your ISP is delivering what they promised.

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Internet Connectivity

Lava.net provides business-grade internet connectivity across Oʻahu and the Hawaiian Islands. As Hawaiʻi's original ISP, we have relationships with every major carrier — and know how to get your business the best deal.

Business broadband
Fiber where available
Carrier-agnostic consulting
Backup circuits

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Web Hosting & DNS

Locked-down, managed web hosting with DNS management handled end-to-end. We've been managing Hawaiian domains since before most modern hosting companies existed.

Managed web hosting
DNS zone management
SSL certificate management
Domain registration support

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@lava.net Email Hosting

Lava.net email addresses are a badge of Hawaiʻi internet history. We still host and support @lava.net mailboxes — reliable, secure, and proudly local. A piece of the island's digital identity.

you@lava.net

business@lava.net

team@lava.net

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Firewall Management

Perimeter firewall managed by Lava.net engineers — updated rules, monitored logs, and a team that responds when something tries to get through. Works hand-in-hand with Trinet-HI's SD-WAN layer.

Managed firewall rules
Log monitoring & alerting
Intrusion detection
Coordinated with SD-WAN

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KYIH — Speed Testing

Keep Your ISP Honest. We run independent internet speed tests and compare your real-world throughput against what your ISP advertises. If you're being shortchanged, we document it and help you push back.

Scheduled speed test reports
Download, upload & latency
Advertised vs. actual comparison
Documentation for ISP disputes

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Google Workspace & Microsoft 365

Authorized reseller of both Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365. Pick the suite that fits your team — we handle provisioning, billing, and support locally, so you're not stuck on hold with a mainland help desk.

Google Workspace licenses
Microsoft 365 licenses
Migration assistance
Local Honolulu support

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ISP Consulting

Not sure which ISP to choose for your next location? We've seen every provider operating in Hawaiʻi — and we'll tell you straight which ones deliver and which ones over-promise. Carrier-neutral, honest advice.

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AI Consulting

Want an AI agent that knows your business? We'll guide you through building one — trained on your documents, hosted privately in Hawaiʻi, and answerable to you. Powered by our ʻohana partner HawaiiData.ai.

Discovery: where AI fits your workflow
Document retrieval & chatbot setup
Voice agents (SIP) for after-hours
Local hosting, your data stays in Hawaiʻi

🌺 Try Kumu — sample AI agent ↗

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Cloud Consulting

Migrating to the cloud, or trying to stop overpaying for it? We'll review your current setup, map workloads to the right place (private cloud, public cloud, or local), and handle the migration. Powered by our ʻohana partner Trinet-HI.

Cloud readiness & cost review
Private cloud (Hawaiʻi-based) or AWS/Azure/GCP
Mailbox, file, & server migrations
Backup & disaster recovery setup

Talk cloud strategy →

KYIH · Keep Your ISP Honest

You pay for 500 Mbps.
Are you getting it?

Most businesses have no idea what their actual internet speeds are — they just trust their ISP's invoice. KYIH changes that. We test, document, and report your real performance continuously.

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Install monitoring agent

A lightweight agent runs speed tests on a schedule from inside your network.

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Collect baseline data

We establish what your speeds actually look like across time-of-day and day-of-week.

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Compare vs. contract

Your actual throughput is compared against your advertised service tier and SLA.

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Report & dispute if needed

We produce documentation you can use to get credits or renegotiate your contract.

Sample KYIH report

Advertised speed500 Mbps

Average measured487 Mbps

Peak hours drop310 Mbps

SLA compliance94%

KYIH data also feeds into HawaiiData.ai's network dashboard — correlating internet performance with call quality, AI response times, and support ticket spikes.

03 / OUR STORY

Hawaiʻi's oldest ISP. Born local, stayed local.

Three decades of Hawaiian internet history — through a handoff from one Hawaiʻi steward to another.

1994

Founded in Honolulu

2011

Acquired by Aryn Nakaoka

30+

Years serving Hawaiʻi

99.999%

Uptime SLA
Virtuals + Dual ISP

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Founder · 1994

Pali Kaʻaihue

When the internet first came to the islands, Pali Kaʻaihue founded Lava.net to give Hawaiʻi a way on — the state's first homegrown Internet Service Provider. For seventeen years, Lava.net was where local businesses, families, and institutions plugged in. The @lava.net inbox became part of the island's digital identity.

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Steward · 2011 → today

Aryn Nakaoka

In 2011, Aryn Nakaoka — already running AlohaTone and Tri-Net Solutions — acquired Lava.net from Pali to keep the brand alive and locally owned. The mission stayed the same: reliable internet, real human support, no mainland call center. Today Lava.net's hosting runs on Tri-Net's private infrastructure and dovetails with AlohaTone voice and Nimble-HI IT.

Three decades of evolution

1994

Dial-up era. Lava.net founded as Hawaiʻi's first ISP.

2001

Tri-Net Solutions launches — private WAN partner for business clients.

2011

Aryn Nakaoka acquires Lava.net from Pali Kaʻaihue.

2020s

Fiber, SD-WAN, managed hosting. @lava.net mailboxes still going.

2026

Integrated into the HawaiiData.ai stack alongside AlohaTone, Tri-Net, and Nimble-HI.

Why a 1994 brand still matters

Local stewardship is the differentiator.

Every other Hawaiʻi ISP either got sold to a mainland conglomerate or shut down. Lava.net stayed in the family — handed from one Hawaiʻi owner to another, never to a holding company. That's why @lava.net addresses still work and the support line is still answered by someone on the island.

04 / EMAIL

Your @lava.net inbox,
now powered by Google.

We migrated @lava.net onto Google Workspace. Same Hawaiʻi address you've had for decades — now with Gmail, 30 GB of Drive, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, and Meet. Locally owned, locally supported, and capped at 300 seats to keep it that way.

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Instantly recognizable

Every local business owner and government agency in Hawaiʻi knows @lava.net. It signals local, trusted, established. Not another @gmail or @yahoo account.

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30 years of trust

Lava.net has been Hawaiʻi's ISP since 1994. The domain carries three decades of reputation. You're not renting a mailbox — you're joining a legacy.

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Google-powered, locally managed

Full Google Workspace — Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, Meet — on your @lava.net address. All the power of Google, with a local team answering your questions.

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Easy to say out loud

"My email is mike at lava dot net." Simple. Memorable. No spelling it out, no hyphens, no confusion. Clients remember it after hearing it once.

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300 seats. That's it.

We cap @lava.net at 300 mailboxes — that keeps us in Google Workspace's small-business tier so pricing stays low for everyone on it.

Claim your spot in The 300.

Email Aryn →

Or call 808·545·5282

The 300 · like the movie

A 30-year-old address. All-new powers.

Your @lava.net mailbox runs on Google Workspace under the hood. That means real Gmail (not crusty webmail), 30 GB shared between mail and Drive, Docs/Sheets/Slides collaboration, Calendar invites that actually work, and Meet video calls — all linked to the address Hawaiʻi already knows you by.

Seats claimed · The 300 189 / 300

Locally stewarded · capped intentionally 111 remaining

Madness? No. This is Lava.net. Three hundred mailboxes, one Hawaiʻi address, zero mainland call centers.

Join The 300 → Call · 808·545·5282

mail.google.com/a/lava.net

Gmail · @lava.net

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AlohaTone

★ Pali Kaʻaihue Welcome to @lava.net on WorkspaceAloha! Your new mailbox is ready — same address, brand new tools. Let me know … 10:32 AM

☆ Aryn Nakaoka Tri-NetQ1 fiber upgrade — Holokahana LnUpdated cutover plan attached. Drive link inside … 9:14 AM

★ Calendar Invitation: Lava.net x AlohaTone sync · Thu 2:00 PM HST · Google Meet Yesterday

☆ support@alohatone.com AlohaToneVoicemail transcription"Aloha, this is Mike from PVP. Calling about our hosting renewal …" Mon

☆ Stripe Your invoice is paid$144.00 — Workspace · 12 seats · Lava.net Honolulu Mon

☆ Drive DriveAryn shared "Lava.net Brand Refresh 2026.gdoc" with you Fri

What you can actually do

The whole Google Workspace — on your @lava.net address.

drive.google.com/a/lava.net

Gmail

Email

Calendar

Schedule

Drive

30 GB / seat

Docs

Live writing

Sheets

Spreadsheets

Slides

Decks

Meet

HD video

Chat

Team chat

Keep

Notes

Forms

Surveys

Sites

Intranet

Photos

Albums

Real-time co-editing · video meetings · shared calendars · 30 GB Drive per seat · version history · iOS & Android apps · single sign-on · enterprise-grade spam & phishing protection. All under one Hawaiʻi-stewarded account.

Before · 2024