About project ProGimp.ru
This site was built for designers, photographers, painters and image processing fans working with Gimp. The main goals of project - publishing lessons for beginners and making social environment for his professional growth.
My role in this project blurred between server-side and client-side. I designed database and wrote all necessary scripts on PHP and JS. Except this I did full server tuning for this project.
This project has good auditory: every day project has been opened by 12000 visitors, who viewed about 70000 pages and made 19 GB daily traffic.
Statistics for Jan and Feb of 2013
| Month | Unique visitors | Number of visits | Pages | Hits | Bandwidth |
| Jan 2013 | 167080 | 236483 | 1108785 | 24218315 | 427.86 GB |
| Feb 2013 | 153136 | 216282 | 952611 | 23145799 | 427.17 GB |
In this project I use NoSQL solutions like memcached for data caching. It makes site ready for high load.
Also site has unique parser of GBR and GIH Gimp brushes. This parser automatically create a sample of brushstroke.
Right now project is abandoned.