"kiosk Who?" The Review
By Zamri Nanyan, Mon Dec 26th
"Kiosk Who?" The Review by Zamri Nanyan
The spotlight of this review is on Kiosk Webhosting.
Before we go further, let us understand the fact thatWebhosting business is a very competitive business in the onlineworld since the last few years. The competition is getting muchmore tougher now since there are many more webhosting companiesgoing on board day by day and they are offering many morebenefits than ever before.
Kiosk is another webhosting company, founded in 1998. Thiscompany is privately owned by Therien's family and is based inOttawa, Canada. The president of Kiosk Webhosting is JoelTherien.
The objective of this review is to answer the question of "Whatmakes Kiosk different from other webhosting companies".
I believe this company is unique in a few ways that's worth tolook at. Let us analyze three of them.
1. Service and Pricing
Currently, Kiosk offer 3 packages - Bronze, Silver andPlatinum. They are priced at $5.95, $18.95 and $24.95 per monthrespectively.
In my opinion, these package plans are reasonably pricedconsidering that Kiosk own and maintain their own web servers.They are not a typical reseller company that a lot of otherwebhosting companies are operating.
However, if you are into Internet business and are planning touse databases and scripts, I wouldn't recommend the Bronzepackage. The least that you'd want to subscribe is the Silverpackage.
The Bronze package is a basic plan and it does not have MySQL.But, of course, if you don't plan to use MySQL database in theinitial development of your website, then the Bronze package isa nice entry level for you. You can upgrade to Silver orPlatinum package once the needs arise.
However, it would be nice to see if even the Bronze packagegets at least one MySQL database to be more competitively priced.
2. Company support
What I like the most about Kiosk is their "fanatical" technicalsupport (as they mentioned it on their website) and a wholedifferent approach in providing support to their clients ormembers.
Majority of webhosting companies have the 24-hour 7-days a-weeksupport, which you can reach by phone or chat online.
Kiosk also provide the all round-the-year support, but what'sso unique about them is that they have an almost daily web VOIPconference meetings where clients and members can login and talkto the company's president.
Having web conference meetings is not a big deal but being ableto talk to the company's president directly is something thatnot many companies are doing.
The VOIP web conference is a tool for the clients and membersto learn the company, the technical knowledge of running awebsite and marketing Kiosk for another additional stream ofincome.
MOreover, guests are also welcome to learn more about Kiosk andget any of their questions answered in
