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Spotters.Aero: the biggest aviation photo site in Eastern Europe

A photo site for the aviation photography community: image processing done perfectly, on limited resources, for a site that quickly became popular.

Client: Spotters.Aero
Industry: Aviation photography
Focus: Image processing, performance
Service: Development and support

The Biggest Aviation Photo Site In Eastern Europe

I just love this site. It is attractive, it's handy for administration and it's not expensive to own.

Ihor Lesiv, project coordinator and site owner.

Pre-history

Historically Ukraine is an "aviation country", and many of the worldwide events in aviation history happened here or were somehow linked to Ukraine. This led to the birth of a relatively large community of aviation enthusiasts, mostly photographers. The community didn't have their own site and photographers were displaying their works on popular spotters sites like airliners.net, jetphotos.net etc. The obvious step for them was to build their own site. It happened in 2007 when the first version was deployed on a local provider's server.

Special Needs

This is a photo site, so the most attention was focused on image processing; files uploaded on the site should be processed perfectly. Another problem was limited resources; the site quickly became quite popular working on outdated hardware. Constant optimizing of virtually every component of the system was our everyday job.

Total

After years of joint effort, spotters.aero has become the biggest aviation photo site in Eastern Europe. The site is a source of photo and video for media all round the world. It is exciting to build a system from scratch and watch it grow day after day into a really popular, heavily loaded and technically complex resource. Now we are responsible for further development and support, adapting site to new browsers and technologies.

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