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One of the Amazon servers went into a hang mode yesterday (always on a Sunday ;-). As we have written before, all of our servers are set up in a redundant fashion, but there are always “gotchas” that you can only learn…
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We are really excited about this new capability that helps bring races and running clubs together! A simple way for a race director to give discounts to running club members! This can be used in lots of ways: Races simply chose the…
Read MoreAs part of our efforts to create a modern and open platform for running, we are developing a number of interesting technologies that are useful to others. Of course the Open Running API is the foundation of these efforts, and we continue to get…
Read MoreAs we have committed to, we do a bi-annual report on Availability of the RunSignup Service. As previously reported, we put a lot of effort in during 2012 to create a multi-faceted approach to high availability for our customers. During the first…
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We did a deployment this afternoon at around 2:15 PM Eastern that updated some of our infrastructure (a new version of SQS, which is the queuing service from Amazon that we use). We had done testing on it in our test servers,…
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We just ran a report for the races that use RunSignup over the past two years. Here are the results: 26.9 % 1 week in advance16.1 % 2 weeks in advance20.7 % 1 month in advance35.3 % 6 months in advance0.9 %…
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With 37% of RunSignup users coming from a Mobile device, the need for races to have a great experience for mobile users has become imperative. We have done device detection for about the past two years and will give a mobile interface…
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Melinda Tate, the race director for The Middle Half left this comment on our blog: “We are THRILLED with RunSignup! I was a little nervous switching to a new registration service, but now I am spreading the word to all of my race director friends…
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We just did a count on the breakdown of race-paid or runner-paid processing fees. Clubs are a little more prone to pay the processing fee: We will do another post in 6 months on this topic and see what trends occur.
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