And to top things off, i just read on Techcrunch, that Media Temple is crushing web hosting. Just my luck i guess. But, at $20/month, you’d still be making a considerable investment in hosting. If you’re just starting out, short on cash, have a hobbie website, or want an online profile (no ads) – WHW might still be right for you.

Just 9 entries have been submitted into this week’s draw for 1-Year of Web Hosting, which is only about 0.02% of the total unique visitors that have passed through these doors to date.

To me, this can mean several things:

• I haven’t built up enough trust (ie: “street cred”) with my visitors yet, so they are reluctant to enter into the draw.
• I simply haven’t had enough traffic to the site yet
• I am somehow directing this offer to the wrong crowd

I will be exploring these 3 issues in more detail as the week goes on and we enter into Week 2.

For now, let me just say that i understand if you don’t want to be one of the first to try and thus possibly the first to get burned.

But let me say this:

Without these early adopters, the internet as we know it, would probably not exist. You are valued members of this vast online community and we salute you! [insert ringtone drumroll please]

Anyway, i wanted to somehow reward those early adopters.

So get your entry in before this week’s draw (11:59pm EST, Tonight) and if you don’t win your entry will be carried over to the following week for a 2nd chance to win!

That’s 2 Chances to Win 1-Year of Hosting for just 1 dollar.

But only if you manage to get in before the deadline mentioned above. You also have a better chance of winning this week with only 9 entries (and counting) than next week (when this week’s entries get added to the draw).

There will also be more surprises in store for those early adopted who help spread the word about Web Hosting Wednesday.

that’s all for now..

After working on WHW for nearly 18hrs. straight, i spent the rest of the week in a semi-crazed, mostly exhausted state of mind. in this time, i performed a few basic tasks to help promote the site and hopefully spread the word a little.

1. i went ahead and added WHW to Technorati and a few other search engines and choice directories. i plan to add the site to a few more in the next couple of days. if you want, you can favorite this blog by clicking on this button.
   
2. i started a small google Adwords campaign to help advertise the fact that you can easily win 1-year of web hosting every wednesday. if you’re not already using Adwords and would like to send traffic to your site you can signup by clicking on this link.
   
   
3. i burned this feed with Feedburner because they have some excellent services to offer like email subscriptions (coming soon). you can subscribe to the WHW feed or signup with Feedburner by clicking on this button.
   

well, that’s all for now..

only 8 entries submitted for this week’s draw so far, and anyone who gets in this early will really have a good shot at winning.

i think the next thing i’m going to do is automate the big “entries count” on the front page. it says: You have a 1 in 8 chance of winning but i still have to update this manually. Not that this have been too much of a problem thus far, but i’ve got some time now so why not.

more updates soon.