RAM, or Random Access Memory, is a kind of computer data storage, which enables the data to be read randomly without accessing the preceding bytes before that. That makes the RAM significantly faster than other sorts of storage devices including DVDs or HDDs in which all the info needs to be read in order to access specific data. If you have a shared hosting account, the total amount of memory your web programs can use may not be fixed and may regularly depend on the free memory that is available on the physical machine. When using a standalone server, however, there's always a minimum amount of physical memory which shall be at your disposal at all times and will never be allotted to other clients even if it's not being used. This is valid with our virtual and dedicated web servers.
