Varnish fixes everything. Drupal's big two issues are bootstrapping drupal, because all those module hooks stack up quick, and the sometimes large amount of qu

Varnish fixes everything. Drupal's big two issues are bootstrapping drupal, because all those module hooks stack up quick, and the sometimes large amount of queries run to generate a page. Drupal 8 has gotten better about not loading half of the world when a blog post is loaded, but 7 is just a wall of functions.