That's funny because I had a similar thought yesterday. We made the mistake several years ago of placing some information within SugarCRM and it is glacial performance-wise. After looking up something I needed, I did some back and forth on here and it was blink-of-an-eye fast. (With SugarCRM, you can take a nap while waiting on a record lookup)

"Why is a blogging platform that is still firmly in beta and many thousands of miles from me orders of magnitude faster than a query from a server not 50 feet from my office?"