As we have committed to, we do a bi-annual report on Availability of the RunSignup Service. As previously reported, we put a lot of effort in during 2012 to create a multi-faceted approach to high availability for our customers. During the first…
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We did a deployment this afternoon at around 2:15 PM Eastern that updated some of our infrastructure (a new version of SQS, which is the queuing service from Amazon that we use). We had done testing on it in our test servers,…
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We just ran a report for the races that use RunSignup over the past two years. Here are the results: 26.9 % 1 week in advance16.1 % 2 weeks in advance20.7 % 1 month in advance35.3 % 6 months in advance0.9 %…
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Melinda Tate, the race director for The Middle Half left this comment on our blog: “We are THRILLED with RunSignup! I was a little nervous switching to a new registration service, but now I am spreading the word to all of my race director friends…
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We just did a count on the breakdown of race-paid or runner-paid processing fees. Clubs are a little more prone to pay the processing fee: We will do another post in 6 months on this topic and see what trends occur.
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We had a couple of races open up this past Saturday that sold out quickly. These are established races who have sold out in the past and they both did some interesting things that others can learn from. Murfreesboro Half Marathon in Tennessee…
Read MoreKnock on wood. Our availability improvements in 2012 have proven to keep us on track. Even with a massive upgrade with Clubs earlier this week we have zero downtime in 2013. I hope we didn’t just jinx ourselves!
Read MoreToday we made a nice update to our Discount/Membership capabilities to better support Triathlons by giving Race Directors and Triathletes a very simple way to add USAT Insurance. To accomplish this, we needed to update some pages for race directors as well as…
Read MoreIt’s no secret that RunSignup is growing very, very fast. Which is great, unless you run into the problem in the graphic on the right. I’m pretty lucky to have been thru a number of fast growth companies. Mostly successful, but also…
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We had a very successful race day registration at the Princeton 5K today. Many thanks to Bill Boyajian of Best Racing and Donna Dourney, race director extraordinaire for giving us this opportunity! There were 49 race day entries and we gave them the choice…
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