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Subject: Sandbox Peak Usage Program
Posted by: Donkey Hunter
- Sustainer [55220159] Thu, Aug 29, 2002, 19:45
Just got this email. Wanted to share the new Sandbox program.
Welcome to another season of Full Contact Fantasy Football. The entire Sandbox
staff is very excited to once again offer the best FREE fantasy football game
on the Internet, and we thank you for signing up to play this year.
Whether you are a wily Full Contact veteran or a first-time player, please read
the following announcement regarding Full Contact 2002:
Each season, Sandbox is challenged with keeping up with the costs associated
with building and maintaining Full Contact. Contrary to where most web-based
fantasy football games are headed, Sandbox will continue to offer Full Contact
Fantasy Football, complete with live-scoring and unlimited player transactions,
at NO CHARGE to players. But in order to offset our costs, we do need to
institute a change to the site.
The most significant expenses we incur are associated with our computer hardware
and extremely high bandwidth costs resulting from the fact that the majority of
our users are logged into the game and making changes at the same time of day.
Therefore, in order to handle the costs of running Full Contact, we are introducing
the Peak Usage program for the 2002 season. Simply put, EVERYONE will still have
access to Full Contact for the majority of each day. However, during our peak
traffic hours only Peak Usage Members will be able to access Full Contact.
Here is an overview of the Peak Usage program:
- HOURS: Sandbox Peak Usage hours are between 9 AM-1:30 PM ET and between
6 PM-9:30 PM ET. During this time, only Peak Usage Members will be able to log
into Full Contact. Those who choose not to become Peak Usage Members will have
ample time throughout the day to log into Full Contact in order to view scoring,
execute trades or pick up players off the waiver wire.
- FEE: The fee for Peak Usage will be $3.95 per month, charged on your initial
sign-up date, and then monthly on the anniversary date of enrollment.
- LAUNCH DATE: The program is scheduled to launch on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2002.
PLEASE NOTE: Full Contact Fantasy Football is still FREE to play. The Peak Usage
program only affects those members who prefer to play Full Contact during the
aforementioned Peak Hours.
We will have an information and sign-up page ready on Tuesday that will provide
more details. In the meantime, please email any questions to peakusage@sandbox.com
or click below to discuss in the Full Contact forums:
http://www.sandbox.com/commerce/pub-bin/promo/6775
Good luck in the upcoming Full Contact season.
Sincerely,
The Commish
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| 1 | Promize
Sustainer
ID: 124153113
Thu, Aug 29, 2002, 19:49
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funny how they wait till the week before the leagues start up to send that email out huh?
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| 2 | St. Louis Psychos
ID: 265402715
Tue, Sep 10, 2002, 13:52
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This peak usage crap is horsesh!t. Now you can't even getto the site in offpeak hours. Every time I have in the past 2 days it has said "Database temporarily unavailable."
Sandbox SUCKS!!
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| 3 | Doug
Sustainer
ID: 3411223
Tue, Sep 10, 2002, 16:58
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I was able to get in during non-peak hours in the evening (PST), but not during the day. During the day I got the same error. I'm guessing site traffic (and the corresponding DB hits) will slowly but surely taper throughout the season.
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| 4 | StLCards
Sustainer
ID: 4431816
Tue, Sep 10, 2002, 17:10
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I have been able to get in "off peak" hours, but sometimes have to hit refresh when "temporarily unavailable" comes up. I think it is awful. Just glad that baseball is almost over. Football I can live with since it is only 1 game per week, but even then, trying to make moves or FA pickups etc. is not too good.
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