Our cloud provider, Amazon AWS, provided an automated update to our MySQL database service last night. This was to provide a fix to the security report issued by Oracle on Oct. 16. We are happy to report that our highly available configuration allowed our failover…
Read MoreWe are somewhat hesitant to talk about security since we do not want to invite unwanted attention. However, with regular reports of security issues popping up (for example here and here), and now the report of the JP Morgan Chase race security breach, we figured it…
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Alan Jones and Roger Bradshaw, the founders of RunScore and The Race Director (the two leading scoring platforms that are used by timers at about 60-80% of races in the US), recently did a survey of their timers. They collected 62 responses from RunScore users and 109…
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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 Case Study on Gallagher Fitness Resources and ActiveSalem.com focuses on implementing a RunSignup Race Calendar, providing resources to…
Read MoreOctober 3, 2014 – Moorestown, NJ and Utica, NY – The Boilermaker Road Race has selected RunSignup, the leading innovator of online tools for Races & Running Clubs, as the official Registration partner for the 2015 Boilermaker Road Race to be held…
Read MoreWe had a 5 minute outage early this morning for 5 minutes at 12:53AM Eastern time. We were doing a deployment and it triggered errors. That error was corrected as quickly as possible. We apologize for the outage. This deployment we did…
Read MoreWe have added a real time map that shows the location of race pages that are being hit. The blue dots are page hits to a race page, or in the middle of registration. The yellow dots are people registering. The larger the yellow…
Read MoreWe are rolling out a new RunSignUp logo this week. It is only a slight modification from the old logo. “Ron Synup”, the running figure that has come to life in many of our videos stays the same. The colors stay the…
Read MoreW e would like to welcome Natalie Young as our newest member of the RunSignup Team! Natalie will be a Technical Customer Advocate – helping our customers set up their races and getting input for future improvements to the RunSignup system. We…
Read MoreIn our ongoing effort to report all availability issues, we experienced a partial issue this morning from about 5:30AM until 8:30AM Eastern. Due to our high level of redundancy, we processed transactions throughout and user would have only had an issue on their…
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