Spring Lake Infrastructure Report

The Spring Lake 5 Mile run opened on Super Bowl Sunday at 5AM as they have for many years. This is always an interesting race opening to watch as it is large (12,500 in the 5 mile plus more in the Kids…

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Availability & Infrastructure Report for 2022

One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Year in Review, RunSignup 2022 Product Recap and RunSignup 2023 Product Plan. We are bringing back our old Availability and Infrastructure Yearly Report after being distracted by the pandemic. We continue to post blogs about important issues…

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Thanksgiving Infrastructure Report

Note from Dec. 15 2022 – We have deployed an upgraded layer of software that controls our session management that is adaptive to high demand and removes the problem with the Apache Webserver cache mechanism that caused some slow performance on Thanksgiving…

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American Express Outage Friday Night

American Express had some outages on Friday night, November 18, 2022. About 10-15% of credit card transactions on our platform use American Express credit cards, and some of those transactions took extra time and some failed. When we try to process a transaction…

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Upgrade to Aurora 2 Database – Potential Downtime

We are planning to do an upgrade to Amazon AWS Aurora MySQL 2 sometime in the next week and a half. We expect less than 5 minutes of potential system impact. Another blog will be posted the day before we do the upgrades. Planned…

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4 Minutes of Down Time

Unfortunately, our 5 year, 9 month and 1 day of 100% uptime with zero time down even for maintenance of the GiveSignup | RunSignup system came to an end at 4:16 Eastern time on June 28, 2021. It lasted for 4 minutes…

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Availability Investments Help Customers Again

Like much of the web, RunSignup and GiveSignup host our infrastructure on Amazon AWS. Unfortunately, they had a pretty major outage on Wednesday before Thanksgiving in one of their data centers. It took down major websites like  1Password, Acorns, Adobe Spark, Anchor, Autodesk, Capital Gazette, Coinbase, DataCamp, Getaround, Glassdoor, Flickr, iRobot, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pocket, RadioLab, Roku, RSS Podcasting, Tampa…

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