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Interesting. It appears the contest was held previously and it brought down Drive then. http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1air46/hi_reddit_i_have_some_m

• damniatx 14y ago
  This can't be the issue, even if it's get 10k submission per seconds, it can't make the system like Google Drive down. come on. that just ridiculous.
  • sergiosgc 14y ago
    About as ridiculous as shutting down Jabber federation on GTalk because that was the only measure Google could take to limit spammy invites. Google has come down a lot from their pedestal last week. In my book, this Jabber federation issue put them on par with "two teenagers in a garage". So, ridiculous as it may be, today I believe one spreadsheet can bring GDrive down. Last week I had a different opinion.
    • Evbn 14y ago
      They shut down federated invitations, not federated conversations, I thought?
• Achshar 14y ago
  That can't be right. A file sharing site from Google cannot handle a Reddit thread? Seriously?
  • codelitt 14y ago
    I agree. Google Drive supports an entire world of Chromebooks, startups, small businesses, and quite a few large businesses. I can't imagine the traffic from a Reddit thread would bring the service down. Even if the doc had something malicious in it (which I doubt is possible because Drive doesn't allow for executable code), they surely have failsafes to wall off any bad files from the rest of the service.