A ticketing system is the most popular medium of correspondence that hosting companies offer to their clients. It is typically part of the billing account and is the fastest way to solve a problem that takes a certain amount of time to examine or that has to be escalated to an administrator. In this way, all comments given by either side will be stored in the same place in case somebody else needs to work on the problem at hand and the info in the ticket will be available to all parties. The drawback of deploying a ticketing system with most web hosting platforms is that it’s not part of the web hosting Control Panel, so you’ll need to sign in and out of at least two accounts in order to perform a specific task or to contact the company’s client care staff. In case you want to administer a number of domain names and each one is hosted in a different account, you will have to use an even larger number of accounts at the same time. It can also take a significant amount of time for the provider to process your ticket requests.