Users were coming in, we were so happy – and one day,
  someone created a Linux Group on Koding, and he sent
  me a message “do you need help?” I replied in a few
  seconds, otherwise servers would have crashed before I
  could hit ‘send’ I said “yes, but we’re also broke :(”
  he replied “who asked for money?”. That’s how we met our
  awesome sysadmin, Aleksey.

Sounds like a good approach. Great post!