Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone else is. You've unfortunately been uncivil in at least one other comment in this thread too.

Could you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not use this site that way? The idea here is to post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

Ok.

So the ORM taking many seconds for query overhead isn't a problem? This makes the web page served by this api many seconds slower. A second of slowness increases bounce rate by quite a bit and by two to three seconds, most visitors abandon the website. I guess that doesn't matter to you as you post a comment without substance and only an insult.

I think you have bigger fish to fry than site performance if you're getting 1 hit per day.

I think you completely missed the point here. If this happens for one customer, it happens for all of them and no amount of hardware thrown at the problem is going to solve this because it's already running on the best hardware available.

What ORM setup gives you "many seconds" overhead on a small website? Are you sure the ORM is to blame? I suspect you are doing something like lazy loading in a loop or joining/filtering on the client side.