University examination system and Online examination system in India require a different approach to servers and hosting. This is because the observed load is highly erratic with more than 70% of the student examination applications coming in the last two or three days. Also the load pattern is often concentrated within the working day hours of 11 AM to 4 PM [5 hours only] as a large chunk of applications are made from commercial cafe [and not homes].
This kind of peaking loads makes dedicated servers the wrong choice for hosting and running online examination or University examination systems because dedicated servers would then need to be chosen keeping in mind this peak load. These servers would then run idle / or severely under-capacity for a large period of the remaining time. It is no surprise that such a choice would lead to higher costs [or poor performance if the server get chosen ignoring the peaking usage pattern described above].
We propose a cloud based platform on the Amazon Web Services [AWS] data-centres. AWS is a MeitY, Govt of India empanelled cloud hosting service provider and powers nearly 70% of the web services worldwide [including India]. A cloud hosting ensures an SLA [i.e. guaranteed uptimes of 99.999% and website response times of less than 100 milliseconds] driven approach as compared to space / bandwidth driven billing with no guaranteed results.
The salient features of our online examination system and University examination systems provided as part of our services offering are as below:
[a] Guaranteed application uptime and response times with unlimited bandwidth and unlimited space
[b] Multi-tiered scalable architecture which ensures a highly reliable and scalable application service
[c] 5 minute backup and restore capabilities of the stored data
[d] Disaster recovery with real time mirroring in two geographic zones of the data stored
[e] Architecture which favours isolated and secured layers which interact with the application
[f] Data-Centre is designed and built to meet rigorous compliance/security standards, including ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, SOC 1, SOC 2, and PCI DSS Level 1, Tier 4 similar (to name a few)
[g] Geographic regions can be within India or one can choose from more than 34 locations worldwide.
The above salient features ensure that your applications and data is never to be compromised! It is a cloud based platform with autoscale service to manage assessments of any scale.
