Namecheap Super Weekend Trivia Contest
Free Domains Every Hour!
It’s Super Bowl weekend and Namecheap has an annual tradition of having a great Super Bowl party every year. Through Twitter, they are running football trivia for 48 hours straight!
The object of this contest is simple: Follow @Namecheap on Twitter and answer the trivia questions correctly. They will post a new question any time during the hour every hour. Eight domains will be awarded hourly to winners who answer the questions correctly.
But it doesn’t stop there. Two top scorers will each receive a 16GB WiFi iPad 2!
(The Apple iPad is the 16GB edition valued at $499)
If you are one of the first four people to answer correctly, they will send $10.69 for a new domain or renewal directly into your Namecheap account. Four other winners chosen at random will win the $10.69 domain name credit as well, so don’t give up if you’re not the first!
You are only eligible to win a domain once per day based on the EST timezone. (Therefore, yes, you can win on the 23:00 hour and then again at 00:00!).
They will then announce the winners and answers on Twitter.
Custom WordPress Maintenance Note
Recently, I moved my WordPress blog to another hosting plan. And to make sure that no changes was made during the migration process, I set a maintenance notice. Hence, visitors got nothing when they visit my blog. So no more comments being left from the database backup.
Well, the process was plain simple, with plain result. But then I learnt a way to make the notice sounds more like an “apology”. A simple custom page, to show your personalized message to your visitor. This way, people will know that there is nothing wrong with your blog, and that you simply undergoing a maintenance process.
In terms of SEO, this approach is also a good way to keep your index alive.
Opt-out Bad Webhosting Services
Still with me sharing about references you might want to take a look into when it comes to opt-out web hosting services. Another recommendation from me is Web Hosting Geek.
Since there are millions of website in the world right now (according to netcraft, there are 555 millions on December 2011), that means millions of people experiencing different web hosting services. And not everybody – I mean every single person in this Earth – put their reviews on one single web hosting directory site. So invest some of your time to discover what others are saying about a particular web hosting services on another different web hosting directory.
Always seek for a second opinion, if I may say.
nichive on 
Roger on 
