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Scalability Update – November 2012

We still have a lot of work to do, but the progress so far is really good. We have a great test suite designed where we can deploy any number of test servers to emulate any number of runners registering for a…

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40 Years of Results

The Alan Jones Vestal XX (named after Alan Jones the founder of the race, former Triple Cities Running Club President and the namesake of the Alan Jones Timer of the Year Award) recently posted over 40 years of results for their 20KM…

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Still Running!

It is a bad day for some of the Amazon Cloud (see this for a report how Reddit, Airbnb, Github, CourseEra, Flipboard and many more went down). Fortunately, we have been working on expanding our redundancy and failover.  And this was a good…

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RunScore Results Integration

RunScore is our first partner who has taken full advantage of the RunSignup Open API to make life simple for timers and race directors who want to get results posted FAST! Alan Jones of RunScore did the integration. It goes full circle….

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Sorry for the Slow Response Time!

We had deployed an update last night which apparently affected one of our web servers.  So for the past 12 hours some of our users (half) experienced slow response times (>2 seconds).  We think all transactions were complete if people had patience….

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RunSignup Reliability Update – October 2012

We have recently done a number of upgrades to our infrastructure to try to improve our service.  As discussed in an earlier blog, we are trying to be transparent on how we operate. One of the biggest things that worries us about providing…

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Timer and Race Director Collaboration

From the beginning, we have been focused on trying to make it easier for race directors and timers to work together.  Recently we have made some major progress in this area by making it easy for timers to download participant information and…

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RunSignup Releases Open Running API

Open Running API allows various running systems to work together, including Registration, Timing and Results systems Moorestown, NJ – September 7, 2012 – RunSignup, the leading innovator of online tools for Races and Running Clubs, today announced the availability of the Open…

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Race Director Input on Refunds and Bib Exchanges

We heard back from some race directors in response to our blog on Bib Exchange and Refunds – a Runners Right?.  I think the two responses below capture the range of comments: We are a non profit that runs a road race as…

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