I recommend building a custom solution if you need more than a trivial website.
This can be tailored to fit precisely what your business needs, and can grow and change with you as your business develops without turning into a patchwork of third–party plugins and hard–to–maintain code.
Design and architecture are not hampered by decisions made by a vendor.
Benefits of fully custom solutions
Features
I can help find the right CMS solution for your needs.
There's a jungle of them out there, and they pack different features, and are appropriate for different use–cases.
Laravel is my go–to framework for new projects.
Kohana was discontinued several years ago, but there are still many sites out there that are powered by Kohana.
Thankfully, the Koseven team picked it up and is maintaining a fork to work on modern versions of PHP.
However, migrating to Koseven is not always an easy path to take. I can help migrate from any version of Kohana to a current Koseven version.