There are different ways in which you can touch base with the web hosting company whose services you’re using, but the one that you’ll invariably find irrespective of which company you pick is a trouble ticket system. This is the easiest means of communication for a variety of reasons. In case no customer service team member is available at the moment and they’re all busy, a telephone call may not be responded to, but a ticket will always hit home. Moreover, you can copy & paste large bits of information without worrying about printing mistakes, and if a particular problem requires more time to be sorted out or a number of replies have to be exchanged, all the info will be in one location, so either party can always see the comments left by the other one. The negative aspect of using tickets to touch base with your web hosting provider is that they are usually separate from the hosting platform, which suggests that if you need to supply information or to adhere to directions, you will need to use at least 2 different systems and this number might increase if you would like to manage a couple of domains. Plus, a lot of web hosting providers reply to tickets after a couple of hours, or even once in every twenty four hours, and for you as a customer, this simply means wasted time while awaiting a reply.