2018 Availability Report
Knock on wood, but it was the third year in a row with 100% uptime – zero downtime. We actually just completed a migration to the newest version of PHP that as you can see from the graph below saved about 15-20…
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Category: Infrastructure
Infrastructure Updates
We have been doing a number of infrastructure updates over the past few weeks to improve availability, increase performance and assure security. For example, there was a major Amazon AWS outage on September 5 that took out the SQS queuing service for…
Read MoreGeek Corner – GPS Positioning Algorithms
RaceJoy is the leading mobile app for races for GPS tracking, social interaction, safety and monitoring because of the advanced technology that no one normally sees. One of the really difficult problems to solve is identifying where someone is on a course…
Read MoreMulti-Factor Authentication
We have released the capability to do Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA, or sometimes called 2-Step Verification) on RunSignup. This is optional for all users (required for RunSignUp employees). MFA is currently gaining popularity as an additional layer of security. The basic idea is…
Read MoreMore Performance Improvements –
We have released a number of performance improvements that make the RunSignup site faster, especially for mobile users. The overall average page has dropped from about 2.5 seconds to 2.2 seconds, with sub-second response on modern computers and mobile phones with fast…
Read MorePerformance Improvements – 40 milliseconds!
We are in the midst of some infrastructure improvements. This is split among a variety of improvements – performance, security, maintainability, availability, and staying on the most current technology. We did a set of improvements in our caching and server connections that…
Read MorePhased Releases
As part of our coming support for easier and more powerful Multi-Race bundles, we are in the process of refactoring (re-writing) a lot of our core registration code. We will begin releasing some of that this coming week, and June should see…
Read MoreLots of Little Things II (actually 54)
We are always pushing out new software (over 1,500 times last year!). It may seem like we write a lot of blog posts, but we could do a whole bunch more. We wrote earlier about how we do lots of little things, and…
Read MoreSLLLOOOWWW Site for 6 Minutes
Sorry! We ran a database migration (something we do often to upgrade the database to add tables or data fields) that really hit the servers hard for about 6 minutes from about 2:12PM until 2:18PM Eastern today. We apologize for the slow…
Read More2017 Availability Report
Knock on wood, but it has been another great year for RunSignup availability, hitting a perfect 100% for the second year in a row! As we covered in February when a major outage for many sites on the Internet like Slack, Trello and Venmo, RunSignup’s…
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