As part of our infrastructure upgrades to prevent the “bad apples” we discussed with the Email Upgrades blog, we will be adding Simple Multi Factor Authentication to the pages where fraudulent behavior can happen. This initial release will be for sending emails…
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We apologize for the inconvenient email maintenance that required us to take the sending of emails offline over this past weekend. We had seen a rise in abuse of our email system. Note there was no effect on processing signups and transactions….
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Part of Bob’s continued ramblings. AI based software development tools have made a couple of very large advances in the past 6 months or so. They are so dramatic, that Salesforce CEO announced in a recent earnings call that they are seeing a…
Read MoreWe are in the midst of doing a major database upgrade from Amazon Aurora V2 to V3 as part of our recurring infrastructure maintenance and improvements. This is a fairly major upgrade as it also includes an upgrade from MySQL 5.7 to…
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Thanksgiving Infrastructure Report Thanksgiving is the biggest day of the year for the endurance community. This year, we had 936 Trots use us to sign up over 1.1 Million participants for trots on Thanksgiving morning on the RunSignup Platform. That is up…
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Turkey Trots are on track for a record year! Early data is showing Turkey Trots on RunSignup are expecting over 1 Million participants this year! We expect over 500,000 CheckIns with our CheckIn app, and nearly 400,000 finisher results completed with RaceDay…
Read MoreWe had our fourth busiest day in history yesterday (after the day before Thanksgiving last year and the two Broad Street Lottery pick days of 40,000 participants). Our customers processed the following on September 30, 2024: $ Transactions $2,960,221 Registrations 52,506 Number…
Read MoreOn August 13 at 3:26PM Eastern, RunSignup’s platform had an outage for 1 minute and 50 seconds where it was non responsive. This is the first outage we have had since the 4 minutes in 2020. These are the only two outages…
Read MoreEarly Friday morning, the world woke up to major outages across critical systems that rely on Microsoft Windows. These outages appear to be caused by a defect deployed to Windows hosts by CrowdStrike, a technology company that provides security software. Note that…
Read MorePart of Bob’s continued ramblings. I was at the annual RunningUSA Conference last week and a number of customers said something along the lines of “I can’t believe how much new stuff you are coming out with!”. I thought it might be worthwhile…
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