&gt;&gt; That&#x27;s not the server&#x27;s fault, it&#x27;s just Drupal being slow.<p>Agreed.<p>I had a static site running on Drupal 7 on Azure and it was really slow. I did a ton of optimizing the front-end code and caching everything I could and it still took between 3-5 seconds to serve pages.<p>Once I switched to a static site generator, I was floored at how much faster the pages loaded and the performance was night and day; and I was still hosting it on Azure. The only variable that had changed was Drupal.