Document for Web Hosting at the Server Farm of Government of Gujarat

GOG IT division has established a server farm at Vibhan Sabha Building. This server farm will host all the websites for GOG departments. Following procedure should be followed for hosting website/registration/transfer domains.
Web hosting Procedure
The Department has to fill up the form enclosed for their hosting requirement and forward it to OSD IT, Department of Science & Technology, 5th Floor Block no 7, New Sachivalaya, Gandhinagar – 382010
IT Department will forward this to the server farm and the web master at the server farm will allocate the web space, login name and password for the secured access to the web server as approved by IT department. Then it will be given to upload/modify the website / data / content. The authorized person of the department will use this.
Once the website data is uploaded a mail has to be sent to webmaster@gujarat.gov.in to carryout necessary work on the server to start the website.
On completion of the task at Server Farm basic testing will be done by webmaster / network team and mail will be replied to the department person who has initiated the process on receipt of this mail, they will carryout extensive testing of the website and make it operational.
Email aliasing will be created and five mail boxes for website will be given like info@yourdomain.com, contact@yourdomain.com etc
Incase of any problem you can contact the webmaster or visit the Server farm in the basement of new Vibhan Sabha complex, Gandhinagar
The Department has to register a new domain as per the domain registration procedure or transfer the domain as per the domain transfer procedure. If the site is to be hosted without a domain then domain guidelines are to be ignored.
Web Hosting facilities available at GOG Server Farm are as below:
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Hosting Facility / Details
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1
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Operating System Options
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2
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Web Server Option
Internet Information Server 5.0 (IIS)
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3
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Database Support
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4
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ASP Execution Support
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5
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FrontPage Extensions
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6
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ODBC Support
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7
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Access to RAW Log File
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8
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24 Hour FTP Access
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9
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Web site Setup on same Day
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10
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5 Email box with unlimited aliases
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11
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POP3/ IMAP Facility to access mail
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12
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Stabilized Power with Battery Backup from UPS
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Domain Guidelines
New Domain Registration:
When a website is to be hosted it requires to register a domain with any international domain registrar. Following process should be carried out
It is required to specify Administrative contact for the Domain
It is required to specify Technical contact for the Domain
It is required to specify Billing contact for the Domain
It is very important that these three contacts are from the department, and preferably CIO of the respective department.
Administrative Contact is the key person for managing the domain and the entire domain registration process is to be done on email hence CIO of the department should give proper official email address and keep accessing this email address on regular basis.
When domain expires then also email comes to the administrative and billing contacts. In case of transferable jobs in government it is suggested to create an email like cio@xyzdepartment.com, hence the next person coming in position can take over this work from the former person. Donot give personal email address like hotmail and yahoo in official registration.
One has to specify name server for the Domain. Details are as under:
Normally it takes 24-48 hours for Internet world to recognize the domain announcement and in some cases it may take some more time.
Primary Server: ns1.gswan.gov.in
Secondary Server: ns2.gswan.gov.in
Already Registered Domains / Website to be transferred to GOG server farm
Department must have registered domain with any domain registrar in the world. The administrative contact of the domain should send an email to the domain registrar to make a name server change as under:
Primary Server: ns1.gujarat.gov.in
Secondary Server: ns2.gujarat.gov.in
Now, the domain registrar will confirm the change of domain with the administrative contact by email and then implement the change in domain. It will start pointing towards GOG server farm and the website can now be hosted at GOG server farm.
It is also advisable to check weather the administrative, technical and billing contacts are from the department or from an outside agency. To have control on domain you have to change all three contacts in the name of CIO of the department.
Web Hosting form for hosting at GOG Server Farm
Department name: ______________________________________
Office Address: ______________________________________
Web space Requirement: 5MB 25MB 100MB
Hosting Platform: Win2000
Web Server Details: IIS 5.0
Database Space Requirement: 5MB 25MB 100MB
Database platform Microsoft SQL Server
Domain Name on which site will be hosted ______________________________
E.g.: www.yourdomain.com
Non-Domain Hosting
Eg: www.xyzdept.gujarat.gov.in _____________________________________
Preferred Email Boxes (5 Nos)
Eg: info@yourdomain.com
contact@xyzdept.gujarat.gov.in _______________________________
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Number of hits anticipated in one-month 10000 2500050000
Data Transfer anticipated in one-month 1GB 10GB100GB
State whether following facilities are required -
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Facilities
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Yes
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No
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1
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ASP Execution
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2
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FrontPage Extensions
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3
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ODBC Support
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4
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Access to RAW Log File
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5
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24 Hour FTP Access
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Contact person for Co-ordination: Mr/Ms __________________________________
Designation ________________________________________
Tel No: _______________________ Email _______________________________
Note: This is to certify that all the details provided above are true to the best of my knowledge.
Authorized Signatory (Stamp)
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