Diagnose slow script executions on specific server

I work with an unmanaged server in a remote datacenter to host web based applications. When we run the SQL scripts to create and populate an application database the whole process is painfully slow. A set of scripts that in my underpowered local PC runs in 5 seconds, on the remote server can take up to 20 minutes.

When I check the running processes I can see it isn’t stuck in any specific statement, it’s simply that each one takes several seconds, specially ALTER TABLE statements:

ALTER TABLE foo_bar
ADD CONSTRAINT FK_foo_bar_foo_id
FOREIGN KEY (foo_id)
REFERENCES foo (id)

It’s a brand new app, so most tables are empty or have at most a few hundred rows. But slowness already happens much before the INSERT INTO statements. All tables are InnoDB.

I run the scripts through command-line PHP if that matters. There’s no antivirus I’m aware of. MySQL/8.0 was installed with Windows MySQL Installer and runs as service with this configuration:

[client]
port=3306
[mysql]
no-beep
[mysqld]
port=3306
datadir=C:/ProgramData/MySQL/MySQL Server 8.0/Data
default_authentication_plugin=mysql_native_password
default-storage-engine=INNODB
sql-mode="STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"
log-output=FILE
general-log=0
general_log_file="FOO.log"
slow-query-log=1
slow_query_log_file="FOO-slow.log"
long_query_time=10
log-error="FOO.err"
server-id=1
lower_case_table_names=1
secure-file-priv="C:/ProgramData/MySQL/MySQL Server 8.0/Uploads"
max_connections=151
table_open_cache=2000
tmp_table_size=16M
thread_cache_size=10
myisam_max_sort_file_size=100G
myisam_sort_buffer_size=8M
key_buffer_size=8M
read_buffer_size=0
read_rnd_buffer_size=0
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1
innodb_log_buffer_size=1M
innodb_buffer_pool_size=8M
innodb_log_file_size=48M
innodb_thread_concurrency=17
innodb_autoextend_increment=64
innodb_buffer_pool_instances=8
innodb_concurrency_tickets=5000
innodb_old_blocks_time=1000
innodb_open_files=300
innodb_stats_on_metadata=0
innodb_file_per_table=1
innodb_checksum_algorithm=0
back_log=80
flush_time=0
join_buffer_size=256K
max_allowed_packet=4M
max_connect_errors=100
open_files_limit=4161
sort_buffer_size=256K
table_definition_cache=1400
binlog_row_event_max_size=8K
sync_master_info=10000
sync_relay_log=10000
sync_relay_log_info=10000
loose_mysqlx_port=33060
character-set-server = utf8
collation-server = utf8_unicode_ci
log-bin = OFF
skip-bin-log

Where can I start looking at this? What diagnostics can I try?