Web presence today has become a vital element for an organization striving to fulfill its objectives in an efficient manner. And in such cases it becomes necessary for an organization to know about various technicalities involved & solutions available to them.
WWW Services Portal (http://webservices.nic.in) of NIC is a one point source for such organizations. NIC prides itself on providing a complete and comprehensive range of WWW services, be it analyzing the very feasibility of a website/ web portal / e-gov applications to conceptualizing its architecture, providing expert consultancy on its various facets to even a complete design, development and hosting of the same from a scratch.
Important services provided by the portal are as under
€|Domain Name Registration ’Gov.in’ domain is a prime domain for any Government of India website. NIC is the exclusive registrar for the GOV.IN Domain names. NIC has also been in practice of providing NIC.IN to various govt. dept. /org from the beginning.
€|Web Site Hosting Registration NIC also provides over 5000 government websites/portals/applications with hosting support with the help of futuristic Internet Data Centre.
The web Hosting infrastructure includes a large number of powerful performances tuned and secured servers, which are well connected, to the Internet. Web Hosting is generally offered on Windows & Linux platforms. Also supported are state-of-the-art Web Technologies, right from CGI, PERL, ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, Servlet etc. A variety of databases including MS SQL, MS Access, MySQL, Oracle etc. are also supported. Besides a variety of web servers, the hosting infrastructure also includes powerful Database & Application Servers. Hi-end traffic analysis, search (Index), chat & media servers are also part of the set-up.
There is a strong team of around 80 web-coordinators of NIC personnel at various levels (Ministries / Departments/States/UTs ) for attending the hosting related issues. Web Hosting Support team at the NIC Headquarters remains in touch with the web-coordinators through the web-based on-line system.
€|Value Added Services Following value added services are also provided as a part of the NIC’s Hosting services, . Web Cast Streaming Media Services facilitate you to do live webcast of the important Events, Conferences, Seminars etc… and it also allows you to stream pre recorded audio/video clips as a part of your website. . WebStat It provides access to on-line analysis of the traffic received at your web site. It not only gives daily / monthly / yearly hit analysis reports of the sites, but also provides information on most popular pages, most often downloaded documents, least popular pages, top referrers/search engines, geographical distribution of visitors etc… and many more reports which help you in developing effective strategies for your Web Site. . Index Services It helps in facilitating a comprehensive and powerful search facility on your website to help the visitors locate the desired information quickly. This search facility not only allows the visitors to search HTML Documents, but also allows them to search wide variety of documents published on your website such as PDF, DOC, RTF, PPT, ASP, etc.
Highlights . Resource Centre on various web tools / technologies. . Support Centre for on-line submission of any request/complaint. . Request for Value Added Services such as webcast facility, Traffic Analysis (WebStat), Search Facility and adding the website to GOI Directory (goidirectory.gov.in) can also be made online. . At any time, the system shows the status of all such requests made by the concerned coordinator and also shows complete details of under process/pending requests. . Request for Staging Accounts to test the functionality of the website before it is launched can be made online through this system, which also shows the status of all the staging accounts ever taken by the concerned user. . Other online services which can be availed from the system include request for VPN services, FTP accounts, additional web space, additional/new database space, request to close/suspend a website etc. . Online submission of complaints, queries for immediate redressal can also be made through the System.