A ticketing system is the most popular communication channel that hosting companies offer to their customers. It’s most often part of the billing account and is the easiest way to deal with an issue that requires some time to examine or that has to be forwarded to a server administrator. Thus, all replies provided by either party will be stored in one location in case someone else needs to work on the issue at hand and the info already exchanged in the ticket will be available to all parties. The downside of deploying a ticketing system with most hosting platforms is that it’s not integrated into the hosting Control Panel, which goes to say that you will have to log in and out of no less than two accounts to carry out some procedure or to contact the company’s help desk support team. In case you’d like to administer several domain names and each one of them is hosted in its very own account, you’ll need to use even more accounts at the same time. Also, it may take a substantial length of time for the hosting provider to answer your ticket.