Joomla website running from Azure very slow

Question

I have migrated a Joomla website to windows Azure and it is running really slow (despite being a temp URL with only me connecting to it) compared to the previous hosting. The site is scaled up to standard with 2 CPUs and runs from a free cleardb
MySQL database (as created by the Azure Joomla wizard). I have tried everything (following guides on speeding up Joomla) to speed it up but nothing works. I am suspicious of the free cleardb database connection and raised a support question with them but they
were useless.
Is Microsoft's flagship Azure hosting really this bad? Has anyone else had problems with speed (particularly if connecting to a cleardb SQL database)?
My test URL is: http://rmjoomla.azurewebsites.net

Answer 1

Thanks Brenton,
That's interesting that it is responsive on the US. Apparently the website and database are hosted in Northern Europe (Dublin for Azure and not sure where database is exactly) and I am based in UK. I have checked it across different connections but
it just seems slow (sometimes 10s plus to load a page). The only thing I haven't tried is upgrading the database but since I am the only connection I am not convinced this will help.
There may be another option you need to check... Make sure the Website is AlwaysOn.. and Azure doesn't tear down the website due to inactivity.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/5c822101-98ab-460d-94c9-d1ebb555d549/azure-website-very-slow-performance-nz?forum=windowsazurewebsitespreview
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