Category: Infrastructure

We have upgraded our web servers to PHP 5.6. to continue to keep our software stacks up to date. We have also upgraded our log handling mechanism. We now save logs for 3 years in AWS S3. We make use of the the Amazon…

As we continue to upgrade our infrastructure over these few weeks, we have improved our error handling and auto-recovery on our NGINX load balancers. What this means is if there are network or server problems, the system we have in place will…

We have also completed an upgrade of our hardware infrastructure over the past week. This includes upgrades to our front end load balancers, our web servers and our database server (we left the memcache servers the same since they are so over-sized…

We did a major database upgrade to Amazon Aurora MySQL this morning (with zero downtime!). This upgrade increases performance, improves scalability, improves reliability, availability and positions RunSignUp for continued growth and change. We were one of the Beta test sites for Aurora, and were…

UPDATE: This is now complete. We had Zero transaction loss. We had registrations completing during the process successfully. We think that 3 users had to wait up to a minute for their registration to complete (the running guy at the end of…

Perhaps tempting fate writing this 2 weeks before the end of the year… We had 8 minutes of total down time in 2015. That is 99.998% uptime. The good news is that all 8 minutes were planned downtime for required system upgrades…

We are always working on improving user experience, and made some updates for the new Free Race Websites we introduced a couple of months ago. We made a change today that reduced our CSS files by more than 50% and saves 36 kilobytes. This means…

We did a database upgrade this morning, and some users may have received an error message during the approximately 1 minute the database was down. If they re-submitted their page everything would continue to process as normal. We upgraded from MySQL 5.5…

We invest a lot in our behind-the-scenes infrastructure. We just completed a fairly major set of projects to improves our resiliency and fault tolerance. In addition, we upgraded the versions of the number of the components we use in our infrastructure. The…