High-load Website Architecture Design and Development for Media Company
Redesigning web application architecture and implementing advanced features for managing 100k daily users.
Our customer
Online News Platform
ZAXID.NET is the first analytical online news portal in Lviv, Ukraine. It mainly provides Lviv and regional news by giving expert opinions and laying the ground for discussion. Except the main news, texts, blogs, it also has a distinct feature – zaxid.net TV, which is a video section that provides news streaming.
The Challenge
Legacy Instability and Manual Workflow
ZAXID.NET was developed and released in 2007. After few years it needed an update of the whole system as it didn’t meet modern technology requirements and worked unstably.
The second problem it issued was a lot of handwork that was done offline by 30 journalists. So the future web application needed to reduce man-hours and improve employees performance.
The Solution
Modernizing News Portal
Romexsoft has delivered a Rescue Mission service for zaxid.net – rewrote the entire application changing its architecture and handled front-end and back-end development. After the launch, we also provided redesign services of an existing project for staying up to date with current industry trends.
By developing full-text search, hit highlighting and faceted search, we improved website usability and raised an amount of user views.
Now zaxid.net can sustain a huge amount of data with a high-performance stability solution while providing a fast search over site content simultaneously. As the result, zaxid.net attracts over 50-100k users per day.
To improve journalists’ performance we reduced lots of manual work by shortening the user flow, implementing online editorial software, and created a handy media file database.
The overall development activities resulted in reducing time to market, enlarging website audience, and increasing client’s income based on media advertisement.
Key features include:
- latest news production and publishing;
- online video streaming;
- news archiving;
- search system – Solr API integration;
- author’s blogs and opportunity for users to comment via social networks;
- data optimization.
The Results
High-load Website Architecture
As a result, ZAXID.NET now runs on a stable, high-performance platform capable of sustaining 50–100k daily users. The new system architecture ensures scalability and consistent uptime.
The advanced search functionality — full-text search, hit highlighting, and faceted navigation — significantly improved website usability and helped grow the number of user views.
Editorial workflows were streamlined by introducing online tools and a centralized media file database, reducing manual effort and increasing team efficiency. The overall improvements led to faster time to market, audience growth, and higher revenue from media advertising.
Why Romexsoft
Trusted Development Vendor
Romexsoft has been a Trusted Software Vendor and Managed Service Provider since 2004.
- 90% of customers are willing to refer Romexsoft as a reliable vendor with extensive experience in software development, and strong expertise in professional and managed services for AWS cloud.
- Romexsoft is a Certified AWS Consulting company with certified and well-trained staff, available to jump into the project and start the assessment phase within two weeks’ time.
- Romexsoft tends to cultivate long-term partnerships with their clients: 60 % of Romexsoft customers stay with the company for a period of at least 4 years.
