Hello, I don’t know if someone has talked about this before in this forum but recently I saw a post on Spanish “slashdot” blog talking about a new PHP framework pretty fast, I don’t know anything about it in deep, but here I’m letting you a benchmark from them:
I have read the documentation and is pretty pretty similar to Yii in structure…
And from my point of view, nowdays, any "semi-proffesional" web project has full access to server, you can get a small VPS for les than 10$ at month nowdays… or even free in Amazon!!
It looks more professional from the architecture and reminds me of J2EE projects (e.g. IOC Container like Google Guice or Tapestry’s IOC)
From a business point of view, what counts is the existing modules/code you can re-use and avoid having to write it yourself - which is a drawback for PhalconPHP.
However, if you have many modules available for Yii - and those modules need rework or performance tuning or security patches - or are not available for Yii2 yet, it might be better to start from scratch with PhalconPHP then sticking with Yii-Framework.