Strange. Symfony2 should definitely be faster than Drupal. Were you running a lot of SQL statements between requests?
In terms of recommending a framework, it really depends on what feature set you want. Do you need a very minimal set of features, or do you want it to be very featured?
Django is great for building CMS. If you have the option, try it out.
In terms of recommending a framework, it really depends on what feature set you want. Do you need a very minimal set of features, or do you want it to be very featured?
Django is great for building CMS. If you have the option, try it out.