Recent Blogs


“Software is Eating the World”

My good friend Sacha Labourey wrote this blog today – CloudBees Raises $23.5 M because Software is Eating the World. He makes the point clear: “Software is not a tool that “helps” businesses anymore. Software has become *the* business. Everything companies do, from interacting with prospects,…

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Run Thru the Woods Thanksgiving Day Case Study

We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users.  This Run Thru the Woods Case Study focuses on building a community event and making Race Day easy.  Overview: In…

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RunSignUp Email Roll Out Schedule

We are happy to release the new RunSignUp Email System! There are several significant improvements that will happen over the next couple of months. Here is the rough schedule: Phase 1 – Mid January – This will improve Basic Usability Phase 2 –…

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Race Director Go

In addition to the big news that The Race Director has joined forces with RunSignUp, we are also excited to introduce a new offering for Race Director timers – Race Director Go, or RD Go. RD Go allows any Race Director (RD) timer to simply…

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2014 RunSignup Year in Review

Much like last year, RunSignup has had another great year. The goal of our company is to provide web services to the running and endurance community. We feel our value is our ability to focus on technology that can be easily adopted by…

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2014 Availability Report

In 2014 we had outages totaling 16-21 minutes (depending on how you count an outage) for an availability of 99.996%.  This is down from 99.998% in 2013. As usual, we do a year end (well, almost – there are still 7 days…

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Guest Blog – Video Results

Steve Stone of Best Times Event Timing is kind enough to share his experience in setting up for video results. Camera PositioningI think we have final found a good GoPro camera position for filming finish line videos. From the attached picture, you can see…

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Healthy Kids Running Series Case Study

We have a series of Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignup users.  This Healthy Kids Running Series Case Study focuses on setting up a Running Series within RunSignup, and…

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Syracuse Half Marathon Case Study

We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignup users.  This Syracuse Half Marathon Case Study focuses on creating demand through a premium event, and customizing a race to encourage…

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Availability Update

Our site was down from 6:31 PM Eastern for about 8 minutes.  This was due to a deployment we did, which ironically enough was to help prevent issues if the Amazon Content Delivery Network was unavailable, we would be able to quickly…

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