Thank You Again!
You, our customers, are amazing! You keep recommending us to your friends and we keep growing. On March 25 we will reach half the number of total registrations we did all of 2013. If we keep on a flat rate, it means…
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Going Live with a Sell Out Race
The Space Coast Marathon opened up registration this morning on RunSignUp. This is a sell out race, and what was interesting is the way they handled registration. Like the Spring Lake 5, they wanted to give a first chance to last year’s participants….
Read MoreRunSignUp User Conference July 18-19
We have the dates set for the first annual RunSignUp User Conference – July 18-19 in Philadelphia! We will begin with a reception on Friday night at a special Philadelphia landmark, and then have a full day of session on Saturday in…
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50 Milliseconds faster
We upgraded to the new m3.large instances type on our Amazon Web Servers at 4:15 PM today. Our average response time fell from about 100 milliseconds of time spent in the web server to about 50 milliseconds. If you can catch that…
Read MoreCreate Race API
We recently added a Create Race API for a technology partner / OEM. We are not making this publicly available at this time, but it is something that may be useful for some advanced technology partners. It also represents the first step…
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2013 RunSignup Year In Review
This has been an amazing year for the RunSignup community, and we wanted to take some time to reflect on the progress we have made in 2013 across several dimensions: Strategy and GoalsIn September we had a company meeting, and we shared…
Read More2013 Availability Report
Our 2013 Availability was 99.9981% for the year. We screwed up twice, and had one planned outage for a total “downtime” of less than 7 minutes for the year and partial registration impact affecting about 15% of customers for about 115 minutes….
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Payment Gateway Outages
Over the past two weeks our Payment Gateway provider, Braintree, has had a couple of outages. This impacted some users who were trying to pay. The first outage was on November 6 from 4:45-5:02 PM Eastern time. This outage was caused by…
Read MoreClub Open API
(Geek alert!) We have just released an extension to our Open API to include Club Membership access. This gives other software providers as well as advanced customers access to Club Membership information from their application. For example, another registration provider could now…
Read MoreNo Advertising and No Spam
Several races have asked us recently for help in marketing their races. We offer a number of ways for races to help promote themselves (like giving you free email marketing, providing natural search, Facebook and Twitter integration, the best Mobile reach, integration with Google…
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