No Windows person either. But the Moodle Benchmark is neutral and quite clear in your case. Writing to moodledata is 25 times slower than the allowed limit! (All the measurements are time.) I don't know what the "root of a web hosting" means, but way too slow for Moodle. No cache can compensate that.
Hardware and performance
New Moodle installation performing slow
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