Extreme Lag in 10-player Realms

Hello

I know that realms have had longstanding issues with lag and stable connections. But recently it seems that the issue has only escalated to new heights.

Before making this report, I ran a few different tests to make sure it wasn't just Addon's, as they are the newest addition in a realm I'm trying to run.

Firstly, i had my friends max out a 10-player realm with me as the 11th, allowing for a true stress test, and it was awful. i had 2 players lag out of the game, (both being last-gen consoles) and other barley able to interact with anything, extreme delays in eating, attacking, seeing movement, placing blocks, etc. Secondly, i started a FRESH world, no addons, no changes, nothing, pure survival. still had the exact same issues. 

after these stress test, we ran a limit test, to see when major lag or issues would start appearing, in the Addon Realm, the effects started appearing as soon as 3 players where online, with the tipping point of unplayable being 5, where it was almost impossible to do things without being behind the world by at least 5 to 10 seconds. This was also the case on the fresh world.

This makes me wonder if the realm was placed on a 2-player server somehow? as it would explain a lot of what I'm seeing here, since i would imagine different hardware is used for the different sizes. Mainly because this is the first time i have seen lag this bad, unless i was trying to make it.