Most members join through a personal recommendation

How did you hear about us? We ask every new member that question on the application form. Personal recommendations lead the way.

We are still growing quickly. I took the 408 applications from the past year and selected those with a meaningful answer to this question. That reduced the number to 308. Here are the results:

As you can see, by far the largest number of members come through a personal recommendation. Someone has heard about us or is a member themselves and tells somebody else. Recommendations are certainly not to be underestimated: here, they account for about a third of all arrivals.

Many people read about us somewhere on the web, and quite a few come through Google. Mentions in media such as Root.cz, ABCLinuxu.cz and Lupa.cz bring in a fair number of people. Most recently, Lupa wrote about us.

We know that conferences help people hear about us, even though there is a long delay between the event and the response. LinuxDays, OpenAlt and InstallFest appear most often in applications. Social networks, on the other hand, are at the bottom of the ranking: Facebook brought us three people in a year, and Twitter only two.

Another interesting finding is that 17 members (!) said they had been members before. Ending a membership certainly does not mean we will never see that person again. When they need a VPS in the future, they often remember us and come back.

Finally, I picked out a few interesting answers from the applications: "The vpsfree.cz address caught my eye in the list of Arch Linux mirrors." Did you know that we run a mirror for various distributions? "Promotion on root.cz, help for the organizers at LinuxDays and Installfest." I saved for last a reminder that a cheap server is not enough for everyone. "I was looking for cheap virtual servers for various experiments. After a few attempts with free or cheap servers, I decided to try something better."