Google on today’s massive Google+ spam influx: “We ran out of disk space”

Interesting. Given the minimum size of a Colossus cluster I find the explanation Vic gives unsatisfying. That being said I'm pretty impressed with the overall product, it is the best attempt yet to unseat Facebook, and I predict it will if Facebook can't come up with a credible response quickly.<p>The killer feature is that its blended with Gmail, and since a lot of people keep gmail open all the time it means you get notified and you see stuff. Not as common to keep one's facebook page open.

Not so long ago hard disk space was abundant, then programmers realized hard disk space was abundant.

Shouldn't there be a Beta tag on the Google Plus icon. Perhaps they left it on Gmail for so long they didn't think anybody would pay attention to it anymore.

Some quick napkin math on numbers:<p>If you're to believe Eric Schmidt when he says 'millions' and put that at 3 million users (being generous), guessing that each user uploads 20 megabytes of content (again, generous) thats:<p>3x10^6 × 20 MB<p>6x10^7 MB or<p>60TB<p>Sanity check or does that not seem like a lot of resources to allocate to a project of this size?<p>Edit: formatting

So I guess "field testing" is the new beta testing? Google watered down beta by applying it to finished products to the degree that they've had to invent a new term to fill its function.

I still have this happen, and every time I tell myself right, today I'm going to put in a warning system that'll stop this happening .... and then I clear up a ton of space and move on.<p>HTTP.sys logging has been a real pain in my ass, every time I deploy a new server I forget to disable it and we do so much traffic it fills the drive completely overnight.

Running out of disk space is probably the single biggest category of server problem that occurs.

Seems today and yesterday (for me and those I have invited anyway) there has been no issue with creating an account straight away. So I'm guessing this has sent the total users on the service up pretty fast.

running out of diskspace is devops 101, it is high time these colossus startups start publishing which CMM level standard they meet