No blog/cms. No Drupal. Actually Drupal feels ancient and archaic at this point. I wouldn't recommend it for anything. If it was strictly a blog I would use W

No blog/cms. No Drupal. Actually Drupal feels ancient and archaic at this point. I wouldn't recommend it for anything. If it was strictly a blog I would use Wordpress. Plus using a framework like Drupal or even Wordpress you're opening yourself up to lots of security issues. For any type of web application beyond a blog that is PHP based I would recommend going with Laravel. Not only is it a great framework there are lots of tools to make it easy to use. Develop locally on Homestead (Vagrant) http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/homestead http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/homestead Deploy easily to Digital Ocean or AWS ($10/mo but will save your hours and hours of time) https://forge.laravel.com/ https://forge.laravel.com/ Critical App?Deploy with no downtime https://envoyer.io/ https://envoyer.io/ Laravel Spark (SaaS out of the box, Coming Soon) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOU_N8PNOD8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOU_N8PNOD8 Laracasts http://laracasts.com http://laracasts.com Great place to learn Laravel. At least checkout Laravel before committing to doing this project in Drupal. I would charge 3x if he insists on Drupal. = 0 Good luck with your project. (btw, I'm just a fan of Laravel.)