Hello,
i`m relatively new to Confluence and am still in the test phase.
I installed the package on a virtual Server 2012 R2 with 4 Cores and 8GB RAM.
There are 4 users locally created and right now i am the only active user which creates content.
My problem, when i start in the morning, i can access the login page in a reasonable speed (using Firefox or Chrome), but when i try to login to my user account or to the admin account which i created, for the first time each day it lasts for about a minute to actually login.
After that it reacts quite ok, working in the menus, creating content is not affected or seems to be what i would call slow.