Recent Blogs


Security Update – MySQL Database Upgrade

Our cloud provider, Amazon AWS, provided an automated update to our MySQL database service last night. This was to provide a fix to the security report issued by Oracle on Oct. 16. We are happy to report that our highly available configuration allowed our failover…

Read More

Affiliate Discounts

RunSignup’s Affiliate Program was designed for partners like RunningintheUSA.com who have race calendars. It allows them to easily grab all of the races on RunSignup and list them automatically on their website. We have a tracking code so we know the source of the runner coming…

Read More

Credit Card Discounts

The Fifth Third River Bank Run went live earlier this week with a couple of unique discount offers. Since Fifth Third is one of the top 20 banks in the US with millions of customers, they wanted to offer their customers something special.  Namely…

Read More

Security

We are somewhat hesitant to talk about security since we do not want to invite unwanted attention. However, with regular reports of security issues popping up (for example here and here), and now the report of the JP Morgan Chase race security breach, we figured it…

Read More

Pride and Motivation

Alan Jones and Roger Bradshaw, the founders of RunScore and The Race Director (the two leading scoring platforms that are used by timers at about 60-80% of races in the US), recently did a survey of their timers. They collected 62 responses from RunScore users and 109…

Read More

Importing Old Event Participant Data

You can now import participant data from previous years. This allows race directors to have easier access to all of their data in one place, and also enables some of the nice year over year reporting that RunSignup offers. Importing old data…

Read More

Case Study: Gallagher Fitness Resources and ActiveSalem.Com

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 Case Study on Gallagher Fitness Resources and ActiveSalem.com focuses on implementing a RunSignup Race Calendar, providing resources to…

Read More

Boilermaker – RunSignup Press Release

October 3, 2014 – Moorestown, NJ and Utica, NY – The Boilermaker Road Race has selected RunSignup, the leading innovator of online tools for Races & Running Clubs, as the official Registration partner for the 2015 Boilermaker Road Race to be held…

Read More

Availability Update – October 2014

We had a 5 minute outage early this morning for 5 minutes at 12:53AM Eastern time. We were doing a deployment and it triggered errors. That error was corrected as quickly as possible. We apologize for the outage. This deployment we did…

Read More

Subscribe to Our Blog

Customize Lists...
Loading

Subscribe to Our Blog

Customize Lists...
Loading