I wrote up a very small blog post on comparing a Phalcon v1.3.1 project to a Laravel v4.1 project. You can read it here, but I will summerize and possibly go over a few things that were not covered in the post. I started writing a personal CMS/Blog about a month and a half ago. After getting to a very basic usiblitity stand point, I uploaded to the free teir of OpenShift that I am currently using.