Forum: HoseHeads Sprint Car General Forum (go)
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I want to apologize to all of the loyal sprint car fans for this week's performance of Dirtvision.com. My webmaster has narrowed the problems down to malicious denial of service attacks. The problem is with the security level at the company that hosts the main site. We have been on the phone with their techs all night working to try and block the attacks. It appeared as if we had it fixed last night and we were good to go but we continued to get the attacks tonight. I have personally called the hosting company and expressed my disapproval of their ability to deliver the level of service. We are going to continue to work on the issues throughout the night tonight and tomorrow to get the site back up and running properly. Again I want to personally apologize to everyone for this unacceptable performance of the site. We will resolve the issue. Brian Dunlap Manager, Broadcast Services DIRT MotorSports

Will there be refunds?

I second that question Dirt Motorsports will there be refunds.

i say anyone who paid for the nationals should get the whole season for that price

Thanks for the apology DV. Hope you get things taken care of soon.

"Just the facts ma'am", Sgt. Joe Friday, Detective, 
LAPD

Brian,

I hope this issue will be solved, charging customers (fans) for something that can't be delivered just is not good for the sport.

Thanks for the response I look forward to a great year of WoO racing.

Dan Filbert
UltraLine Motorsports

Thanks for letting us know what has happened.

Lets not get stuck on STUPID

This is so much garbage and we are expected to believe it. I think everyone should call their credit card companies and protest the charges

This isnt a new problem. Same thing happens every year and often.

Some of you guys need to lighten up, we got a sincere apology and explanation from the man in charge of DV. This technology is in it's infancy, and it's amazing that they even offer it to us. How many times has your internet or cable TV gone out, and did you ever get an apology and explanation for that?

I do agree, however, that they need to offer something to people that have paid for the service. Maybe an additional month free or something. I do believe they will get it right, eventually.

Just tried logging in now and still says Server is to busy!

Apology accepted.  Technology is a wonderful thing ----- when it works.       I've had my share of frustrations with techological issues....  Computers and servers sometimes crash and malfuntion - it's a fact of life...  Patience, please.  I believe the apology to be sincere and I believe they are as frustrated as we are.

technological not techological.....sorry about that.

I have to disagree with you. Streaming live video and audio is not new technology. It has been around for some time now and is very sucessful when done correct.

Member of this message board since 1997

Was the broadcast down for everyone or just a few?

"Just the facts ma'am", Sgt. Joe Friday, Detective, 
LAPD

i have not read all the posts here but i would say that dirt should offer a month of free cyber as a tryout to anyone wanting to sign up. you could go to a sign up page and sign up for a free month before you are charged. it would get the user numbers up so they could try to figure out the usage load under real world conditions and hopfully solve problems. if they can get the thing to work the way it should then they could charge more if they want to to help pay for the thing if that is what it takes. if people get what they want and it works good they might bitch about the price but i bet a lot of people would subscribe to something that worked for $100.00 a season cause they are paying almost that much to get into a 2 night show already. jmo

You've lost me Dirtvision, I was ready to sign up (Pay up) for the year but you guys can't even get the audio right. I've put up with what I thought was the most boring and repetitive Johnny "Hoot" Gibsons six song record collection for 4 years or so but that isn't half as frustrating as this crap tonight.

Let me know when you have a reliable service. My contact details are right here.

i feel so bad about this that I am ready to apologize for not sending them a spare cat5 patch cable.

time for dirtvision to visit the work area

good luck with the new format / new announce team and parting the loyal fans with the money you need to bouy this top heavy operation.

Lincoln 1845 ft/.35 mile T1=118MPH 
Eldora 2287 ft/.43mile T3=135MPH
Port 2716 ft/.51 mile T3=TBD
Grove 2792 ft/.53 mile T3=135MPH
Selinsgrove 2847 ft/.54 mile T1=136MPH
"I didn't move to PA from El Paso in search of better 
weather." Van May

I would think that with the $50 odd million that this company has blown the last few years that it could set aside a few bucks to set up a reliable stream.

Member of this message board since 1997

hawker would not be happy with woo unless they took off the wings and made double diamonds mandatory on the RR. and even then he would find something wrong. lol hawk! but i have to admit this was a piss poor showing from DV.