Technology is Hard

Amazon, the leading Cloud provider had some major issues today. The screen shot on the right shows their status page around 1PM today – and RED is not good. Even USA Today, and CNN reported the 4-5 hour outage this afternoon: “People reported outages and delays on…

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The Mighty Mud Dash Encourages Referrals

Referrals can be one of the single most powerful marketing tools for your race, making up 7-13% of total registrations for races with referral rewards activate. To maximize the program, your runners have to: The Mighty Mud Dash in Texas (www.mightymuddash.com) is…

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Saved Credit Card Stats

Fast registration is something every race should strive for. One of the features we offer is for participants to save their credit card information securely. Here are the latest stats from January, 2017: This is another reason why participants love it when their favorite races…

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Eric Cone Joins RunSignup

Moorestown, NJ – Eric Cone has joined RunSignup as VP of Strategic Business Development. In this role, Eric will be helping with strategic directions for the overall business, as well as working with some of RunSignup’s strategic clients and business partners. “We…

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2016 Year in Review

Another great year! Lots of happy customers. Lots of great technology released. Lots more registrations. Zero Downtime. As we complete our 7th trip around the sun, here are the yearly totals for paid registrations: The basics of our business are to collect…

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Technology Change Rates

I attended a talk by Thomas Friedman last night. He showed a slide that relates very much to what we do here at RunSignup: His point was more global – that technology is changing faster than human’s ability to keep up with the change….

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Runners Blasted Off with RaceJoy at the Space Coast Marathon!

49,000 Progress Alerts   –   93% Usage   –   6,500 Cheers   –   1,200 Phones Tracked At the 45th anniversary of the Space Coast Marathon & Half Marathon participants and their supporting friends and family were treated to an out-of-this-world experience with RaceJoy’s interactive race day features. Courtesy…

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Photo Upload Optimization

We have released an optimization to photo uploads to make sure that a photo is only uploaded once. This solves the situation of where a batch was uploaded and maybe some did not complete, or there were photos added and it was…

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1,000 Registrations per Minute

Bayshore Marathon opened this morning and along with other traffic put a load of 1,000 registrations per minute on our system. Response time was 2.6 seconds with peak loads of over 6,000 pages per second. Registration opened at 9:00 and there were 861…

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