A ticketing system is the most widely used communication channel that hosting providers offer to their clients. It’s typically part of the billing account and is the most efficient way to deal with an issue that takes a certain amount of time to investigate or that needs to be escalated to a sysadmin. In this way, all replies provided by either party will be stored in the exact same location in case somebody else wants to work on the issue at hand and the info already exchanged in the ticket will be accessible to all parties. The drawback of using a ticketing system with most web hosting platforms is that it is not part of the hosting Control Panel, which implies that you’ll need to sign in and out of at least 2 accounts in order to execute a certain procedure or to contact the hosting company’s help desk team. In case you wish to administer several domain names and each one of them is hosted in a separate account, you’ll need to use an even larger number of accounts at the same time. In addition, it might take a significant length of time for the provider to reply to your ticket.