There are several ways to touch base with the hosting company whose services you are using, but the one that you will always find no matter which company you select is a support ticket system. It’s the easiest form of correspondence for a variety of reasons. In the event that no help desk support staff representative is available at the moment and they’re all busy, a phone call may not be replied to, but a ticket will always be received. In addition, you can copy and paste large bits of information without needing to worry about typos, and in case a specific problem requires more time to be resolved or a number of replies must be exchanged, all the info will be in the very same place, so either party can always see the comments left by the other one. The negative side of using tickets to touch base with your web hosting provider is that they are usually separate from the web hosting platform, which suggests that if you have to provide information or to adhere to directions, you’ll need to use no less than 2 separate interfaces and this number might rise in case you desire to manage a couple of domain names. Plus, lots of web hosting companies respond to tickets after a couple of hours, or even once in every 24 hours, and for you as a client, this means wasted time whilst waiting around for a reply.