A few days ago, we passed 1000 members. It was predictable, and it means we have not done anything fundamentally wrong.
More members have already applied since last week's milestone, so growth continues at its steady pace.
We looked at members who have stayed for more than four years. There are over two hundred of them, so it seems we have very loyal members:
- 4-5 years: 90 members
- 5-6 years: 53 members
- 6+ years: 74 members
We currently have 1328 IPv4 addresses and 1352 IPv6 addresses in use. Looking at our IP address ranges, we still have a decent supply thanks to the transfer of a /21 range from a Slovak company that was closing down. We can keep growing.
I will also answer the same questions Tomáš answered last week:
Did you hope to reach a thousand members in six years?
We hoped so, and it more or less worked out that way. We have estimated growth from the number of new members right from the start, since we account for it when buying hardware and so on.
For me, reaching a thousand is evidence that we have not messed anything up in a major way and that what we do still makes sense.
Do you have a funny story?
When we introduced a switch for the backend network, it was my first encounter with Cisco. The job ended up taking all night. While I was wrestling with IOS, Tomáš was sleeping peacefully on the floor near the rack... and there have been many more visits like that to the datacenter over the years. We
look back fondly on each one. I remember a volley of inventive curses aimed at whichever technology it was, and I cannot help laughing.
Where would you like to take vpsFree.cz?
I would like to reach more people and involve more of them in what we do. I would like to see an even more active community and, in an ideal world, for us to be known as a place where new administrators grow and learn real skills.
When will we reach the second thousand?
With the English translation of the website on the way, I hope it will take less than another six years.