The DIPP website need to be functional and running at all times to provide information and services to the users. The DIPP website is hosted on the NIC servers and NIC will make efforts to minimize the downtime of the website as far as possible by taking immediate steps as and when required. In eventualities like defacement/hacking of the site, data corruption, hardware/software crash and natural disasters, NIC will make all efforts to restore the site in the shortest possible time. It is the responsibility of NIC to keep the website data at a disaster recovery site located at a remote location for recovery purposes.