Define Web Hosting & Virtual Private Network & Voice Over Network

Web Hosting || Virtual Private Network || Voice Over Network

WEB HOSTING

• It is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via world wide web.
• To put your web site on the Internet you need three things:

1. Domain name is an identification label that identify IP resources such as web sites.
   E.g. www.google.com
2. Web host account is the account hosting companies
3. Web site is a site created by the user.

VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK

• It is a group of computer systems, connected to a private network.
• It is secure way of connecting to a private LAN at a remote location using Internet.
• VPN’s include encryption, strong authentication of remote users or hosts, and mechanisms for hiding or masking information about the private network topology from potential attackers on the public network.

VOICE OVER INTERNET

• Internet telephony is the new technology, where phone calls can be made in any part of the world through the internet.
• There are various web sites offering Net Telephony services like Net2phone, Vocal tec, net meeting.
• Family of internet technologies, communications protocols and transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over IP networks, such as Internet.