If your web hosting provider offers live chat support, you'll be able to speak with an agent live and learn useful info or get a problem resolved in a very timely manner. The basic advantage of using chat rather than calling to talk to a live person is that you need only a computer with web access, so you won't pay any rates in case you are in another country or state. What's more, it'll be much simpler to copy and paste data such as domain names, usernames or error messages in other words details that are sometimes hard to provide to the other side over the phone. The live chat is also a considerably faster option to contact your website hosting provider's support crew in comparison to using a ticketing system. Last, but not least, in the event that some problem needs a bit more time to be taken care of, you can do something else entirely while you wait for assistance on the live chat, so that you will not lose time - something that's impossible in case you are on the telephone.