Awesome Net was created by Michael Pierce to provide those die hard sysop’s out there with a reliable FTN feeds for their BBB’s. The name Awesome Net started as a bit of joke, to say that the network will always be reliable, the name just kind of stuck.  The Network is located in Portland, Oregon and runs on redundant Raspberry Pi’s fed by a fiber optic 1 gigabit connection to the internet.  Fidonet is the first network to be added to Awesome Net, but more are coming.