Maintenance Outage on Tuesday
RunSignUp will be unavailable for 1-2 minutes between 3:45-4:15AM Eastern on Tuesday, September 22 to do a database upgrade. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Registration Market Analysis – September 2015
We are a very open company (with things like public annual and availability reports as well as public roadmap), and we thought we would share some analysis we have done as well as general thoughts on the future size and direction of the registration market. We do…
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The Synthesis of Races, Stores, and Training Programs
At our 2015 RunSignup Race Director/Timer Symposium, Andy Marsh from Playmakers shared his view of the synthesis between Races, Training Programs, and Running Stores: We’ve shared our philosophy of the Running Community before; that the running community is made up of tens…
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Thanks Mollie Bickel!
Mollie Bickel is our number one reader of this blog! Thanks Mollie! Here’s a picture from a few years ago…
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Southwest Cafe Margarita 5K Case Study
We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignup users. This Southwest Cafe Margarita 5K Case Study focuses on the Check-In App and RunScore Results. Southwest Cafe Margarita…
Read MoreRunSignup Employees In Your Shoes
This weekend, RunSignup’s own Johanna Goode is putting on her first race as a race director! Johanna is part of the Fishtown Beer Runners and came up with the idea of The Philadelphia Mayors Cup where all of the 35 running clubs in Philadelphia could compete…
Read MoreMid-Year Availability Report
For the first 6 months of 2015 we had 99.998 availability, with NO unplanned outages (knock on wood). We have had 1,590 releases of our site this year thru August 3, with only 2 requiring us to take the site down (2…
Read MoreAvailability Issues on July 31
At around 2:00 AM on July 31 our Cloud provider, Amazon AWS, had trouble with three of the services that we use (SQS, SNS, and SES) simultaneously. The outage lasted until about 3:40 AM. This impacted about 50 transactions. We have been able to recover…
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RaceJoy Goes the Distance
This past weekend, RaceJoy was available for many different road races across the country, including two ultra distance courses where we experienced record-breaking usage by some incredible long-distance athletes. The longest usage of RaceJoy’s GPS tracking to date occurred at this past…
Read MoreRunSignup Availability and Disaster Recovery Implementation
We have been asked by a customer to document our disaster recovery plan, and we figured that it might be useful to document this for other customers as well as provide an example to other websites who might want to use a…
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