Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to have a transformative impact on national security. It is also seen that AI is essentially a dual-use technology. While it can fuel technology-driven economic growth, it also has the potential to provide military superiority. India has a strong IT industry and a vast talent pool of engineers, which are advantages that need to be leveraged. The Ministry of Defence has already initiated the process of preparing Indian defence forces to use AI and how these capabilities can be increasingly developed within the country.

To study the whole gamut of issues surrounding the strategic implications of AI from a national security perspective in a global context, a multi-stakeholder Task Force represented by members from the Government, Services, Academia, Industry Professionals, and Start-ups was constituted in February 2018, under the Chairmanship of Shri N Chandrasekharan, Chairman, Tata Sons. On June 30, 2018, the Task Force submitted its Final Report with recommendations. The Task Force, in its report, has, among other things, 

• Studied the level of AI/ML development in India in general and specifically in the context of defence needs.
• Made recommendations for making India a significant power of AI in defence, specifically in the area of aviation, naval, land systems, cyber, nuclear, and biological warfare;
• Made recommendations for policy and institutional interventions that are required to regulate and encourage robust AI-based technologies for the defence sector in the country. 
• Considering that most AI work is happening in the private sector, I recommended working with start-ups/commercial industry in the field of AI use for defence purposes.

As part of its deliberations, the Task Force had an intensive review with all stakeholder representatives, including officers from the Army, Navy, Airforce, and Coast Guard, representatives of all Defence PSUs, namely BEL, HAL, BEML, BDL, MIDHANI, MDL, GRSE, GSL and HSL, and OFB. Senior representatives from these organizations participated in the day-long workshop to deliberate in-depth on the various use cases relevant to their respective needs. These discussions led the Task Force to understand the potential military and civilian applications in the AI domain.

Raksha Mantri is the leading promoter and patron of the AI Task Force of the Ministry of Defence. Today, the Task Force handed over the Final Report to Raksha Mantri Smt Nirmala Sitharaman for the Government to accept it and implement its recommendations.

Source: Press Release
Release ID: 1537260
Date: June 30, 2018
PIB Delhi
Ministry of Defence

Rich-media featured websites show big, beautiful hotel lobby images or sliders on the homepage.

A welcome page listing hotel features and images. Most Hotel websites have chosen WordPress (Content Management System)  to determine website functions. They have landing pages to convince customers to book a room at said property. These landing pages are linked to hotel software for managing bookings.

Features vital for Hotel Website

• Speed is an essential feature of hotel websites.
• Most visitors access the website using mobiles, so a responsive hotel website with a mobile-friendly interface is much required.
• Quality unique content about the hotel property, writing the details about the rooms and services with images.
• Travel Knowledgebase about the city where the hotel property is located
• Providing details about the surrounding markets, transport, and safety tips.
• Provide space for visitors’ reviews, comments, ratings, and feedback.
• Headers or footers might contain links to social media pages.
• Contact-Us Page from where visitors can make contact with hotel management.

The hosting companies look for a 100% online presence in the hotel business. An opportunity is available for Reseller Hosting, Business Hosting and CP Web Hosting companies.

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Internal Issues

Web hosting companies work in a cross-culture environment. Hence, understanding the customer is a big challenge. Further, satisfying each is tough and needs time and resources.

Single-Stop Shop – Internal Issues

Another major weakness of hosting companies is that they are not aware of the core competencies on which they are masters. They want to sell every hosting service like a single-stop shop. The primary hosting services include Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, VPS, Dedicated Servers, Cloud Hosting and other related hosting products or services.

Lengthy Signup Process and Complex Payment Modes – Internal Issues

In search of legitimate customers, most hosting companies ask for identification proof or payment made through PayPal. They are undoubtedly doing right, as the industry is full of fraudulent customers. Most customers pay using the credit cards of people who may be in a relationship or buying hosting services.

The designers and developers buy hosting services in the name of the customer name and use their credit details or ask the owner to pay. The credit cards are in the person’s name, not in any company’s name. But, again, when buying hosting services, if there is any mismatch, the signup account goes to fraud, which is not moderated by most. Hence, they lose new signups, especially from developing countries, because of the above issue.

Lack of Proper Managers – Internal Issues

Managers can perform a strengths/Weaknesses analysis to evaluate the business. And if they are unaware of the weaknesses, how can they fix them? Thus losing the market, which they could acquire by developing new strengths and coping with gaps.

Review Objectives – Internal Issues

Most hosting companies don’t review their objectives concerning magnitude and time. The industry moves very fast. New developments and technologies emerge daily. That led to the change in hosting plan structure, target customers, and required resources.

Lack of Contingency Plan – Internal Issues

Most Reseller hosting companies depend on parent providers for support, backup, and resources. They don’t create contingency plans for risk containment, improvement, or innovation. They run the business to get the lowest price reseller plan and resell resources at the right margin to increase profits. Furthermore, they overlook the new opportunities to improve ROI. They don’t have a long-term business growth vision.

No leadership left in the market – Internal Issues

Although most hosting companies state they are leaders, particularly hosting services, the market is hyper-competitive. The profit margins are low as abundant underpricing competitors exist in the market. Every hosting company states that they provide high-performance hosting services.

The hosting customer is so confused that it needs quality leadership to guide the best features in plans, inspect and monitor hosting companies regularly and carefully and provide trusted, unbiased reports.

Technical skill development – Internal Issues

Most companies do not have the budget to do research and development, strengthen technological intelligence and develop leading-edge services.

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SiteGeek Association

SiteGeek emerging as Hosting Industry associated Institutions

Public opinion a potent force – SiteGeek Association

The hosting industry recognizes public opinion as a powerful force and has changed the entire industry. Forums, questions, answers, reviews, ratings, and comments have provided the much-cherished right to freedom of expression.

Increasing Complexities of Hosting Industry – SiteGeek Association

The hosting industry is becoming increasingly complex, and many other institutions are emerging and interacting with the elements associated with companies, visitors, and customers.

Hosting companies pay greater attention to associated institutions like SiteGeek.com, providing full acceptance and cooperation.

Public Attitude – SiteGeek Association

Sitegeek has been successful in understating and generating public attitudes. Companies generate profits when they have a positive public opinion with them. It becomes a key consideration in shaping policies catering to hosting viewers’ needs.

SiteGeek is in a continuous process of 2-way communication with viewers of its website, understating their needs and calculating perceptions based on various metrics. Overall, SiteGeek focuses on understanding the psychology of hosting industry customers.

SiteGeek has been very professional in building relations with the industry public. Review and ratings are the principal application, role, and process of SiteGeek. For the same, analysts, researchers, and programmers are doing their best to ensure its effective management.

Role – SiteGeek Association

The site geek role can be summarized in 5 points:

1. Understanding the hosting industry’s changing nature and scope and generating its ethics. Highlighting various activities allowed or disallowed as a hosting customer based on ethical standards provided by multiple agencies.
2. They are working on various functions and principles of an industry and studying multiple programmes, plans, and policies. Discussion on companies’ abuse policy: Although, primarily, all the hosting companies have the same approach, it also depends on the land rules where the company exists.
3. Researching on growth and development of industry in various developed and developing countries. Focusing on the challenges posed by the changing environment of those countries.
4. We are educating and bringing awareness to the development and policies framed by various government bodies for the growth of an industry.
5. Differentiating and analyzing various hosting companies’ strategies, advertising plans, coupons offered, cost cutting, and resource increment. Map out the limitations of different programs presented. Identifying the hosting customers in multiple hosting sectors like adult hosting, shared hosting, reseller hosting, WordPress hosting, Joomla hosting, Drupal hosting and VPS Hosting. They were creating awareness of the tools for website development like e-commerce, CRMs (Customer relationship management) and CMS (content management system).

Institutions like Sitegeek are catalyzing and bringing change to the hosting industry. They provide the appropriate tools for persuading and motivating the hosting customers in the development tasks of strategies and needs required in hosting providers. They have brought strategic communication and mutual understanding between customers and companies.

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Search Engine Optimization

With the advancement in technology and the introduction of a new range of devices, new possibilities are opened for Internet access. Every website owner wants to be more visible on search engines and social networks. SEOs of most companies understand the benefits of ‘accessibility and Search Engine Optimization’. They know what they are and how they matter so much. More efforts are being made to make the content findable, accessible and understandable by the masses on the whole range of devices(small PC Computers, tablets, Phones, Gaming devices, TVs, e-readers, voice-controlled computers in cars) they use. A website is built to accommodate all. Thus, they are device-independent, and their user interface is prepared to fit all devices.

Web admins install browser development tools to evaluate screen readers of platforms like Windows, Mac or Linux. Using HTML5, they now have better semantic markup and accessibility standards, thus making the website more user-friendly and easy for web developers to manage. Also, it is easy for search engines to read content. Google and other search engines still don’t’ understand videos and images, so it becomes essential that they are correctly marked up. People pull and share the content on social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+. The site, which is easily accessible, becomes more shareable.

Now, there are accurate and descriptive headers, images, and links with proper markup and an easily accessible menu (both single-level and drop-down) with the unordered list.

Accessibility Tools for Web Developers
Standard tools are available with all modern web browsers to check for accessibility issues and SEO, which proved to be convenient tools in website building. Most of the users browse on IE, Firefox or Google Chrome. They can add add-ons or plug-ins.

Tools available on Firefox – Search Engine Optimization

From Addons.mozilla.org, accessibility testing tools can be installed.

Developer Tools – with this tool, objects visible in a browser can be turned on or off. For example, turn off All Styles to view the site without CSS. Similarly, you can view the page without images or other objects. This is done to test the various markups for the objects.

Firebug – Once installed, a button appears in the right corner of the browser, and when clicked, it provides the CSS output in the right corner of the browser.

SenSEO – to reveal the hidden SEO info of a page. Firefox displays info title, description, keywords of a page, web address, type of text, encoding, size and meta tags by right-clicking anywhere on the page and selecting View Page Info. This is the information search engines are viewing, and with SenSEO, what search engines see can be unveiled. Search engines and Social Networks like Facebook or Google+ capture the text from meta-data provided on the page, which can be controlled.

Accessibility Checks – Search Engine Optimization

1. Language Check: In the HTML tag, put <html lang= “en-US”> to tell the search engine and text speech browser that the content is in US English. If it is in another language, a browser will detect the language and offer a translation option. If the page contains multiple languages, then codes for those languages must be embedded. These codes can be referenced from the site w3schools.com
2. Proper Meta tags: Provides additional information to a page hidden in a browser but provides information to search engines. Each page must have a good title and description. A description must be brief and under 160 characters; you can try to embed the primary keyword in both the title and description. You can add keywords also, but they are becoming less important to search engines.
3. Use HTML5 semantic codes: HTML is now in the 5th iteration, thus the name HTML5. Start using the new tags provided in HTML5; they are easier to understand and prepare your page for future added functionality in browsers. The codes are now meaningful and give the info about the content.
4. Give proper headings and descriptions to your page’s different sections (menus, content, sidebars, and footers) to define and separate them. They can be hidden or taken out of context for a regular browser viewer looking for content. You can shift them away from the screen by positioning absolute and padding it to -9999px.
5. Use ordered or unordered lists for related and sequential content that should appear together, like menus, comments, and galleries.
6. Use the Title attribute in links and images after hyperlink reference for additional information. Similarly, the ‘alt’ attribute is also necessary for images as per standard compliance; they provide a text-format image description. If an image is a link, the alt text must be the same as the title.
7. For multi-level content, use headings h1 to h6 – making a page more accessible for people and search engines to navigate, parse, and understand.
8. Use <strong> to strongly emphasize instead of <b> and <em> for emphasis instead of <i> – Both the tags <b> and <i> have a stylistic approach, but they don’t put any weight on the web, as what action to be performed. Using the CSS, <em> (font-style: italic;) and <strong> (font-weight: bold;) can also be stylized.
9. Use of <blockquote> to indicate quotation – If the content is from some other website or wants to divert the user’s attention that somebody has said this text. This validates the text as it can be linked out to the source to be more transparent. Use the <cite> tag when the content refers to another source. Link the source so that viewers can reach it. This can be the best strategy to get links from other sources.
10. Use <small> tag for copyright statements, conditions, rules and legal disclaimers.
11. Use the <meter> tag to display the data range like “8 out of 10”. <meter value=”8” minimum=”1” maximum=”5”>. Perfect tag for the sites, displaying the ratings, reviews, etc.
12. <abbr> tag for abbreviations and acronyms to provide extra information. Once the reader has moused over it, a little pop-up will display additional information about it.

Be on top of search engines on a win! Win! Situation.

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Web Hosting Online Affiliate Business

In the last few years, the hosting community has observed many acquisitions and developing partnerships in the hosting industry. Big brands have bought many small companies to expand and promote business. Thus allowing many different channels from where they can sell products and services. Not only this, but it will enable them to grow their customer base.

LinuxHost Web Hosting Online Affiliate Business Experience

LinuxHost affiliate manager Mani. K. shared that the hosting companies previously mainly depended on the affiliate network. But now, they are investing more in acquisitions and partnerships. Although it gives some loss to affiliate business, the industry is vast, and new companies are emerging daily. The big brands still run the affiliate system, but now their task is taken by dedicated affiliate systems providers like CJ and Impact Radius. They take affiliate sales cut from affiliates. Although they promptly send money, members are still unable to build trust with them. As such, web hosting online affiliate business is declining.

Role – Web Hosting Online Affiliate Business

The part about affiliates cannot be overruled; they are still the major players in any company’s marketing strategy. To succeed in achieving goals, a hosting company can never think of ignoring affiliates. The marketing team’s significant role is to develop such partnerships with affiliate websites.

Trust – Web Hosting Online Affiliate Business

The companies take 45 to 90 days before releasing the commission to affiliates. Here, the affiliate member wants to trust, as the number of sales made by visiting their affiliate links should not be cut off. The companies that remain transparent and show proper sales figures stay on top of various keyword-oriented tables and thus gain massive traffic.

Listings – Web Hosting Online Affiliate Business

The affiliates place banners and links of the products and services on the web hosting company listing in their website posts. The website visitor shares review and ratings on them, which helps the affiliate website team to understand the quality and support offered by the company and various other parameters. The customer’s willingness to purchase, their needs, and all such factors count into an analysis, which further helps to keep the affiliate business growing.

Holistic Marketing – Web Hosting Online Affiliate Business

Like hosting companies, affiliates do practice comprehensive marketing. Depending on the 3rd dimension of communication, i.e., environment, the affiliate members design their processes and activities and implement their marketing programs. They do various calculations on insights, as maximum monetization is their primary concern.

SiteGeek Way – Web Hosting Online Affiliate Business

The SiteGeek team says they organize an internal meeting before sharing or running a campaign. The marketing, designing, PR, and managers participate in that and discuss appropriate marketing strategies and channels. Thus, it helps create, develop and communicate services in the best way. The tracks include emails to customers who have contacted earlier for similar services, social media where the contextual discussion is happening, partner websites, and local customers who show interest.

The ROI is calculated for all the activities done. The reviews are analyzed and provided to a technical team to ensure proper, timely response. The companies and affiliates depend on customers; hence, the site geek affiliate team maintains multi-faceted, long-term relationships to strengthen the market further.

Participation – Web Hosting Online Affiliate Business

The affiliates participate in various conferences, workshops, and meetings to grow their networking further. Likewise, companies and members join various social activities with a broader concern for society and the environment, which could be legal, ethical and social.

Full knowledge of a subject required before writing on it. And when writing web hosting articles a lot of technical terms encountered hence, a writer’s experience counts. The pieces belonged to the genre of format writing, to-the-point, informative, and based on raw facts and figures. No place for emotions, typically written to enrich the reader’s knowledge base or help to resolve an issue.

Objective Driven

A writer remains brief, precise, clear, on the point, logically presented, unambiguous and conclusive. The online reader only looks for items of his/her interest and skim the rest of the article without wasting much time. Most readers never read the complete article, until they found it interesting.

Most tutorial articles are written, when a need crops up and the situation is unique and exclusive. The brevity of available knowledge leads the writer to research and come up with a conclusive document.

Situations that lead to writing web hosting articles

• How-to-do articles: Provides a step-by-step solution for doing certain operations and functions. Such reports are well-supported with images and videos.
• New idea presentation: Presenting and involving readers to provide feedback or comments.
  Writing a brief description of the complex process so that it gets easily understood by the hosting customers saves time.
• Writing articles on hosting issues that arrest and attract readers’ immediate attention.
• Hosting company listing: Providing a brief of features and services offered by hosting provider. The hosting customer looks for such articles to check the reviews and ratings posted by other visitors, who have already experienced such services.

Writing Web Hosting Articles Effectively

• Summary: Briefly present and explain the essence of the entire hosting article.
• Include 3-4 paragraphs, and each paragraph explains a single idea. Thus, the entire article becomes a sum of many ideas. The section provides the structure of a hosting paper.
• Highlight the crucial and significant points.
• Re-check the article for grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Clarity and precision are the most important and must be taken as top priorities.
• Replaceenever new updates are available. Whenever new updates are available
• An article must contain action or a desirable response apart from information. It should be a neat, straightforward, and simple presentation.
• An article must contain the author’s name and a contact form.
• An article contains an organized structure, logical sequence, and attractive format in which the writer presents the idea logically, rationally, and precisely to attract the reader’s attention, curiosity and interest.

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Share Comments

LinuxHost.net allows visitors to comment spontaneously and sincerely on posts and pages. Visitor can share experiences, issues, questions, and answers in their style, whether formal, informal, structured or casual. A writer and website publisher pays constant and sustained attention and takes adequate measures or solutions to share their point of view.
The comments are well respected and help the post-writer understand different beliefs, attitudes, and worldviews. The words could be contradicting, conflicting and of warring perception or may show similar thoughts, values, ideas, knowledge, and philosophy.

Before commenting, the site management expects that:

• The commentator has read the entire article and understands the meaning. Understand the message concerning the situation and environment; comments should relate to the post.
• While discussing, avoid the use of jargon and awkward and inappropriate words.
• Use only allowed HTML tags.
• Ideas shared should enable further enhancement in the discussion and avoid repetitive comments.
• Avoid promotions, advertisements or self-presentation as they adversely affect the ongoing discussion.
• Pay optimum attention while writing replies to prior comments and give correct, rational and expected responses.

Commenting technology is continuously and interestingly becoming an information-sharing and gathering tool. It is becoming helpful in policy formation and management. Some companies consider commenting systems as gossip pockets or grapevine, where informal written communication occurs with purpose and intention. The commenting system in a new technological world is used for networking and sharing information. Every comment needs to give and take a lead into a well-established method.

The comments can be made using different gadgets, such as mobile phones, tablets, PCs, and laptops. It is challenging for the site management team to handle an enormous volume of comments, which raises strange problems.

• Some comments are redundantly shared on many websites, leading to DMCA issues.
• The post’s relevancy is sometimes lost with such overloaded comments.

The website management collates, understands, analyzes, and finally approves comments to make them available in the public domain.

The commenting system has standards, rules, and regulations which website members accept, follow and appreciate.
The requirements or needs are sophisticated and complex. Hence, we must mention them with precision, clarity, and simplicity in a formal environment with preferences and choices.

Furthermore, from comments, a post-writer knows about the scope for improvement and addresses areas left unattended.