Internet Explorer Support

We are dropping support for versions of Internet Explorer older than Version 11 on the Race Dashboard. This version was released in October, 2013 so older versions are pretty, pretty old. There is very little use of older browsers, and making the…

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Technology is Hard

Amazon, the leading Cloud provider had some major issues today. The screen shot on the right shows their status page around 1PM today – and RED is not good. Even USA Today, and CNN reported the 4-5 hour outage this afternoon: “People reported outages and delays on…

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Photo Upload Optimization

We have released an optimization to photo uploads to make sure that a photo is only uploaded once. This solves the situation of where a batch was uploaded and maybe some did not complete, or there were photos added and it was…

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1,000 Registrations per Minute

Bayshore Marathon opened this morning and along with other traffic put a load of 1,000 registrations per minute on our system. Response time was 2.6 seconds with peak loads of over 6,000 pages per second. Registration opened at 9:00 and there were 861…

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http/2 Support

We have been doing a lot of infrastructure improvements over the past couple of months as a part of our PCI Level 1 Certification.  That is the highest level and requires extra measures of auditing and security and scanning, including a week…

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Security Patch

We updated our site with this security patch – https://blog.cloudflare.com/yet-another-padding-oracle-in-openssl-cbc-ciphersuites/. Other webmasters may want to run the free Qualys SSL scanning tool to check their grades – https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html. Users can also check out their most common websites as well (proud to say RunSignUp beat…

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Sunday Afternoon Errors

UPDATE: We have made two changes to our system to try to improve this situation if it happens again. First, we have adjusted the settings on our New Relic Monitoring tool to try to catch this type of error so we can…

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RedLine13 – RunSignUp’s Technology Spin off

A couple of years ago Rich Friedman, Stephen Sigwart and I (Bob Bickel) spun off a technology company called RedLine13 from RunSignUp. We felt we had developed a couple of cool pieces of technology that a broader community would be interested in…

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ImageMagic Security Hole Fixed

A security hole was reported in ImageMagic, a tool that many websites including RunSignUp use for image resizing and processing. We learned of this issue yesterday and have updated the site with fixes last night. We did not detect any breaches as a result of…

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