Fault Tolerance
We had a problem with one of our load balancers in the middle of the night from a bit after midnight until about 1AM. Two cool things: 1. No users noticed it since there are at least two in service at any…
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Mobile Registration for the Young Crowd
We have a Graffiti Run using RunSignUp. We did some analysis and 47% of the people registering are doing so from a mobile device. We see an overall rate of about 29%, so the increased rate is most likely due to the…
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RunScore Updates RunSignup Integration
RunScore has done a new revision that makes things even easier for timers to sync participant information and results with RunSignUp. Here is an updated video from Alan Jones. Let us know if you have questions or suggestions!
Read MoreWelcome Bryan Jenkins!
We are happy to welcome Bryan Jenkins to the RunSignUp Team! As more timers and race directors use RunSignUp, we constantly try to make sure we keep our customer service great. Bryan will join Jordan Desilets who has been helping our customers…
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Keeping Ahead of Growth
We are growing very fast thanks to all of the great word of mouth we are receiving from race directors, timers and clubs that use us. Our challenge is to make sure we can handle the growth. Fortunately we have been involved with several…
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Geek Time – Open API and Uploading Divisions and Awards Winners
This will interest very few people in terms of the technical details, but it is another example of how software providers can use the Open API. We are currently working with a results software company and they want to upload Division Winners and…
Read More2012 Availability Report
We’ve done a lot of work this year on improving the availability of our Service. Over the past several months we have moved to completion of that in parallel with our scalability project and have reached a point of stability and the…
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50,000 Registered Users in 7 Minutes!
Our Scalability project has reached success! We have eclipsed our goal of doing 50,000 registrations in 10 minutes – completing the task in only 7 minutes. This means RunSignup is simply the most scalable registration system in the world – able to meet the…
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Passaic Valley 5K on TV!
One of the races that uses RunSignUp, the Passaic Valley 5K, is being highlighted on Running HD on the YES Network (the network that carries the Yankees and other sports teams). They gave a nice shout-out to RunSignUp! Here is the video: Highlights of…
Read MoreAmazon Cloud Conference
I just came back from the Amazon Cloud Conference. I am more convinced than ever that we made the right decision a year ago to move to the Cloud. Amazon now has hundreds of thousands of businesses from 190 countries now using…
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