There are several ways in which you can get in touch with the hosting company whose services you are using, but the one that you will always find regardless of which company you opt for is a trouble ticket system. It’s the easiest means of correspondence for several reasons. In the event that no technical support staff representative is available at the moment and they’re all engaged, a phone call may not be answered, but a ticket will always be received. Besides, you can copy and paste large bits of information without worrying about printing mistakes, and in case a specific issue needs more time to be solved or a number of responses have to be exchanged, all the info will be in one and the same place, so either party can always see the comments supplied by the other one. The negative side of using tickets to touch base with your hosting provider is that they’re usually separate from the web hosting platform, so if you have to supply information or to follow guidelines, you’ll need to use at least two separate systems and this number could rise in case you want to administer multiple domain names. Plus, lots of hosting companies respond to tickets after a few hours, or even once in every 24 hours, and for you as a customer, this means wasted time while awaiting a response.