Hosting Infrastructure
Hosting infrastructure of NIC includes strategic storage,
known as Storage Area Network (SAN), in National level Internet Data Centre (IDC) at
NIC(HQ) as well as State level IDC at Madhya Pradesh State Centre
that facilitates high availability (24x7x365), quick scalability, efficient management
& optimized utilization of resources, with connection to Internet on very high
bandwidth. The SAN is a high-speed  special-purpose network that
interconnects different data storage devices with associated Servers and a part of the
overall network of computing resources, which support disk mirroring, backup, restore,
archival & retrieval of archived data, data migration from one storage device to
another and the sharing of data among different Servers in the Network. These
state-of-the-art web servers are powered by various Operating System platforms like
Windows, Linux, etc.
Web Services
Web Hosting is generally offered on Windows
& Linux platforms. The primary domain for hosting the government websites is
'.NIC.IN'.  However, support is also provided for hosting the websites in
other domains such as GOV.IN, ORG.IN, RES.IN, AC.IN, .NET, .ORG, .COM, etc.
State-of-the-art web Technologies, right from CGI, PERL, ASP, Front Page Extensions, PHP,
JSP, Servlet etc. and a variety of databases including MS-SQL, Oracle, MS Access,
MySQL, etc. supported.
Web Services of NIC Madhya Pradesh covers the
maintenance of over 585 websites through Madhya Pradesh Portal (www.mp.gov.in “Cyber
Gateway to Madhya Pradesh”) to facilitate a greater access to all interested  netizens for promoting G2G/G2B/G2C/G2E interaction, which includes value
addition for Website Design & Development, Registration of Domain under NIC.IN &
GOV.IN Domains, Unlimited  Web updations through FTP over VPN, Maintenance of
State specific contents on National Portal of INDIA, Uploading facility on Tenders INDIA
Portal & Government Policies Portal, Internet Publication of Proactive Disclosure
under RTI Act-2005, etc. Websites/Web-enabled Applications, like Samadhan Online, CM
Monitoring Programme (CMIMS), File Movement Monitoring System, Passport, Land Records,
High Courts of M.P., Gyandoot, Health Services, School Education, Forest, Food & Drugs
Administration, National Judicial Academy, Fisheries, Women & Child Development,
DISHA, etc., are some of the important sites.
Remote Publishing
Facility
NIC provides remote publishing facility (FTP),
which allows updation and maintenance of website from any remote location through VPN
(Virtual Private Network) at your convenience. The FTP over VPN facility is a secured
channel for this purpose. The facility can be availed by all the user
Departments/Organizations, whose website/web-enabled application is operational on NIC
Server, through submission of filled-in Digital Certificate Request Form for VPN Services.
Security Audit of Website/Web-enabled
Application
As hosting infrastructure of NIC is secured, it is mandatory
that all websites/web-enabled applications hosted on NIC servers must be audited for
content security and obtain audit clearance Certificate, before it’s release. The
list of empanelled IT Security Auditors is available on the website of Indian Computer
Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) at URL www.cert-in.org.in. As a part of this security audit, the procedure/programs
used inside the concerned website/application & database are checked for any security
vulnerabilities. To ensure utmost security, no website can be hosted on the NIC web
servers without undergoing the mandatory IT Security Audit.
Internet Dissemination of Results
NIC has been successfully publishing various examination
results on the Internet for many years now. The Results Portal of NIC Madhya Pradesh www.mpresults.nic.in is a one-stop source to get  online
results of various Academic, Entrance and Recruitment examinations conducted by Board of
Secondary Education, Professional Examination Board (VYAPAM), District Boards, Barkatullah
University, Railway Recruitment Board, etc. The portal has become a household name with
the students, parents and teachers, who are generally keen to check the results. The
portal  also publishes Examination Schedules, Details of Admit Cards,
printing of Mark Sheets, Re-evaluation Forms, etc.
The portal also features important
announcements; both prior to the declaration of the result and upon its launch on the
Internet, besides automatic display (linking) of related announcements & results on
the website of the concerned Board/University, therefore the response to the portal from
the users is overwhelming. A number of servers at National IDC have been set-up
exclusively for publishing the results. The technology of content switching has been used
to ensure effective Load Balancing to cater to peak traffic on the servers, whereas the
Staging servers enable the NIC State Centres to upload and verify the results data before
it’s final publication on Internet.
Registration of Domain under GOV.IN
As per Internet Domain Name Policy, NIC is the
exclusive registrar for GOV.IN country level Domains, which is reserved for registration
of 3rd & 4th level domain names for all Government
Departments/Institutions/Organizations. NIC has set up an exclusive website www.registry.gov.in to facilitate ‘GOV.IN’ Domain
registration. The domain name registration policies, process and eligibility requirements
are available on the site along with Online Registration facility.
Website Traffic Analysis
Service (WebStat)
WebStat tool provides access to
on-line analysis of the traffic received on the website/web-enabled application. It not
only gives daily/monthly/yearly hit analysis reports of the site, but also provides
information on most popular pages, most often downloaded documents, least popular pages,
top referrers/search engines, geographical distribution of visitors and many more reports,
which help in content management, performance tuning & development of effective
strategies for the site. For more details, please visit http://webservices.nic.in.
Webcast Services
With the advent of high end streaming media technology, the
concept of live/on-demand webcast has gained popularity. Webcasting of an event allows to
extend the reach of event to all the Internet users, without limitation of physical or
geographical boundaries. NIC ensures optimum webcast with flawless production quality.
Webcast service of NIC offers a turnkey solution for an event, bringing onsite production,
hosting & streaming to millions of online viewers. For more details on
Webcasting facility, please visit http://webcast.gov.in.
Web Hosting Charges & Procedure
The hosting services range from shared Hosting
to Dedicated Servers to Co-located Servers, besides management of the hosted websites. For
the purpose of convenience, shared hosting charges are in the blocks of 5MB, 10MB, 15MB,
25MB & so on. For more details on Hosting Charges & Hosting Procedure, please
visit http://www.webservices.nic.in.
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