Project was founded on 26 May 2013 to collect and display Command&Conquer Tiberium Alliances players statistics. In its short period of activity more than 500GB of data were collected and 70+k unique users visited website with more than 1M views.
Due to high costs and lack of time to maintain it project founder closed website on 15 November 2014.
Project used many different technologies to keep it working.
All data were collected with use of bash and PHP scripts directly from game webservices. Collected informations were saved in MySQL and MongoDB databases located on separated dedicated server.
Frontend were written in Symfony 2 (which code you can see in this repository) with help of memcached to reduce response times.
To enhance user experience there were also:
- Google Charts
- jQuery with custom plugins
- statistics bot that posted rankings on in-game forums
- Amazon SES based newsletter
- in-game worlds data in CSV files to download