The quality of the hosting service which you will get for your Internet sites depends not only on the attributes which a given plan comes with, but also on the hardware your web apps work on. Increased CPU speeds, for instance, indicate that the processes running on the hosting server will be performed faster, while additional physical memory (RAM) means that more processes can run simultaneously. The quality of the hardware can also influence the general performance and reliability of the server. Because the hosting service today features not only file storage, but also databases, emails, logs, and so on, more processing power is required to run all the system processes and to ensure that they work properly and with no lag. When the hardware is not powerful enough, the result will be slower websites and / or even service timeouts since the machine will not be able to take care of all requests to the Internet sites hosted on it.