Reseller Hosting: Kiosk.ws Vs. Hostgator/Others

Hello everyone. I am hoping to get some opinions on a question I have.

Just yesterday I signed up for a Titanium account with Kiosk.ws for 1 buck for the first month after getting a recommendation from a fellow marketer. Apparently lots of the "big dogs" like Filsaime use this host, and they positioned themselves as a "IM Friendly" host.

This sounded great, and the details of their package also sound great. But what was the downside? The price!

After your 1 dollar trial month, you are paying 45 bucks a month for your web hosting. The package gives you 200GB of data transfer and 70GB of data storage. Since it is a reseller account, you obviously get Web Host Manager and can create cPanel accounts for each individual website you want to host.

Compare this to Hostgator (Or please give me other recommendations), which offers their lowest tiered reseller account for 24.95 a month which offers 250 GB Data transfer and 24 GB data storage.

So there are the basic statistics. While Kiosk.ws offers 46GB more storage space, they offer 50GB less data transfer than Hostgator, but Hostgator is also a full 20 dollars cheaper a month.

Here is where the grey area comes in:
As I mentioned Kiosk has positioned themselves to me a Host FOR IMers. Their affiliate program is made up of a forced matrix MLM scheme. Meaning basically, if you worked really hard, you could easily make more money per month as an affiliate than your plan costs. **IF** being the big phrase. I have heard lots of reviews on their hosting that claims the reason their price is so high is because all the affiliates want the price to remain higher to get better commissions.

Kiosk also offers several IM-geared features that help justify the 45 dollar pricetag, such as a lead-generation software (which sounds an awful lot like a simple form builder to capture names/addresses) and an autoresponder service (which is supposed to make an Aweber subscription unnecessary... But we all know that we are going to still use Aweber even if our host offers a inferior FREE solution if we take our business seriously)

Basically what this all boils down to: Does the interesting MLM based affiliate program and the couple extra IM-geared extras make Kiosk.ws WORTH paying 20 dollars a month more than Hostgator?

Does anyone have experience with Kiosk as far as customer service and data center uptime is concerned? I know Mike Filsaime had a hell of a time launching BFM2.0, which I can only assume used Kiosk as their host?

I am simply realizing that while Kiosk may be a "IM Host", perhaps the extra couple bells and whistles really do not make enough of a difference to justify the price.

Agree? Disagree? Really would like some opinions from others with Kiosk and HG reseller accounts!

Thanks for sticking through this long winded post