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TengoInternet Celebrates Five Years of Business Success

Austin, TX (PRWEB) January 16, 2007 -

TengoInternet, the oldest and largest wireless Internet service provider for the outdoor hospitality industry, today celebrates its fifth year in business.

In the past five years, TengoInternetÂ?s customer base has grown from one RV campground in Austin, Texas, to hundreds of Wi-Fi enabled parks and outdoor hospitality venues in thirty states and in Mexico.

Â?Helping hospitality operators keep travelers connected is the core of what we do.

Increasing demand for reliable Wi-Fi access with great support in outdoor hospitality venues, coupled with industry consolidation, provides us with a great opportunity to aggressively expand our business,Â? said Eric Stumberg, president and CEO, TengoInternet. Â?Our challenges continue to be executing our growth and continually improving upon our great service to our customers. To this end, weÂ?ve retained 97% of our original customers.Â?    

In a recent customer survey conducted by TengoInternet, 85% of park owners responded that Wi-Fi is an important amenity to attracting guests to their campgrounds.

Â?WeÂ?re a premium resort providing premium amenities and service to guests. We were one of the first resorts in the United States with Wi-Fi and TengoInternet made the service work,Â? said Jim Rowley, owner of Austin Lone RV Resort and original TengoInternet customer. Â?ItÂ?s great to see TengoInternet be successful in the industry and still provide great service to my park and our guests.Â?

Texas-based TengoInternet is the brainchild of Eric Stumberg, an entrepreneur who started his technology career with Dell Corporation in 1997. While traveling in Mexico in 2001, Stumberg took comfort in hearing the words Â?Tengo InternetÂ? (I have Internet) and developed a plan to provide exemplary customer service and Wi-Fi access across the United States and Mexico.

About TengoInternet

TengoInternet is the oldest and largest wireless Internet network provider for the camping and outdoor hospitality industries, enabling business owners to offer a highly desired amenity to their customers. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, TengoInternet has earned a reputation for delivering a great service experience through its proven sales, installation, marketing and technical support teams. TengoInternet currently provides broadband wireless access service for hundreds of campgrounds, hotels, apartment complexes and marinas throughout the U.S. and Mexico. For additional information, visit http://www.tengointernet.com.

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Five Tips For Selecting The Best Small Business Web Hosting

When you start looking for a web hosting solution for your e-commerce website, there are some specific things you need to look out for to make sure you get the best bang for your buck. The features you require from a web host will depend on what you are planning to do with your website.

1. Technical support. When something goes wrong on your website, you are losing money. Make sure your web host offers excellent technical support that will respond to your requests within hours and not days. Some web hosts even offer toll free telephone support 24/7.

2. Bundled software. Before you build your website you should decide whether you will require any specialized software like a content management system or a shopping cart system and then see if your web host can offer it to you as part of the package.

For example, if you get a web host that offers the cPanel control panel software, it usually includes a component called Fantastico which gives you the ability to easily install a variety of software for use on your website. You will be able to select software like a weblog, content management, customer support, discussion board or shopping cart.

3. Editing tools and script support. Many web hosting companies offer easy to use website design and editing tools. Or if you are using a software package like FrontPage, check that the web host has support for FrontPage extensions. And if you are planning to use scripting languages on your website, like PHP, ASP, Perl and others, make sure that your web host is compatible with those languages.

4. Speed and uptime. Check that your web host guarantees uptime of 99.9% and check the information about their data center. You want to make sure they have high speed connections to the internet backbone.

5. Do your due diligence. Before you sign up for any small business web hosting account, look over their website and check for awards or seals of approval that they may have received from magazines and look for the the Internet Better Business Bureau Seal. Use your favorite search engine to look for reviews of the web hosting company. You will always find someone that complains about a company, but you will quickly see if a web host get consistent bad reviews and no good reviews.

If you follow these tips, you will be able to find a reliable and stable small business web hosting service.

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Starting A Home Based Business – Web Hosting’s Five Vital Tips

You have designed a good web site which represents your business well. Now what? The next step would be to get it a space on the Internet. How do you get your web site on the Internet? The process of getting your web site on the Internet and one of the most important aspects of starting a home based business is called “web hosting”. There are five very important aspects of web hosting which you should look into when you decide the

web host for your web site. The aspects that will be mostly affecting your starting a home based business are described below:

1. Check the disk space offered: When starting a home based business, you will need adequate disk space to run your website. What you should seek is about 20 Mb maximum. You may get offers for much more, but while more will not harm you – you will not need it either so you should not bother too much if you get more.
2. Check the bandwidth: Your starting a home based business will be dependent on the traffic you will be able to generate. Much as you will compare people visiting a shop to see the wares the shop sells. And your capacity for accepting many visitors is directly dependent upon the bandwidth the web host provides you. What you need while starting a home based business is about 500 Mb to 1 Gb. Anything less and you will not be able to support sufficient traffic for your business – making you loose on business and popularity.
3. Check the server uptime: For any business to stay successful, it needs to be accessible. Much like having your shop open round the clock, server uptime will decide how long your website will be available for surfers. If your website does not open when a surfer checks it out, they will definitely move on to another site – and hence you loose precious traffic. This can kill you when starting a home based business. You should ensure that your web host offers you a 99.8 per cent server though some web hosts offer between 99.5 – 99.8 per cent. Anything less than 99.5 percent is unacceptable.

And remember there is NO 100 per cent server uptime – if you are assured this, reject the web host as they are not honest.
4. Check the available technical support to your website: It is extremely important not only to have a good technical support, but also a very prompt one. There will be many times during the starting a home based business when you experience technical problems. If these are not tackled and solved immediately, your website will be history. Customers do not have time with problematic websites – they will not wait for you, but move on and you will loose precious leads and business. Technical support should not only be prompt, it should work round the clock, round the year.
5. Check a price around: Nowadays you can get web hosting done for a very reasonable price, and it is good to find a good bargain. However, a good bargain is not “cheap”. Calculate briefly how much would it cost to have a good server (without interruptions), and you should aim at around that much. If you settle for too cheap, you are more likely to get inferior services. Too low is not good news when starting a home based business, or any other business for that matter. It shows cutting of corners somewhere, which is not good.

Keep these points in mind when fishing for a good web host and you will be able to choose better.