[nbroyal]

Google cache for those who hit the "pageview limit exceeded" nonsense:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=clnk&#3...

[CRASCH]

I think he missed one.

A bad programmer won't understand or take into consideration the limits of the target platform.

A good example is posting an article to a host with limited bandwidth.

[sjf]

That's a bit harsh, that's a distribution problem, not a development problem. It's been long time since I've used free hosting, is there provider that doesn't limit bandwidth? (This is just out of curiosity.)

[drusenko]

We don't :) (Weebly)

[bartw]

Not yet.

[drusenko]

No. Down the line, maybe a cap on the very top end (tens of millions of pageviews per month) -- if that becomes a problem (it hasn't yet).

But we have absolutely no problem serving high traffic sites (millions of pageviews per month) for free, it hardly costs us a thing.

[drusenko]

wow, that's completely ridiculous.

searching through their help center, they won't even tell you what the limit is, but it seems to be pretty low. just. wow.

[davidw]

Reminiscent of Geocities, isn't it.

[wizard_2]

This has been making the rounds on twitter and other places, I'm sure it's had a fair amount of load.

[mojaam]

Never thought I'll see that on a google service. Thanks for the cache.

[Jebdm]

It's fairly ironic--Google is restricting the page views (to limit bandwidth usage), but at that same time they're hosting a copy in cache of that same page, with no limits.

[CamperBob]

No kidding. That's so moronically un-Google, it's got to be a bug rather than a genuine quota issue.

Because otherwise, Google 2009 == GeoCities 1999, and that would be unthinkable.

[gojomo]

I find "Google 2009 == GeoCities 1999" very thinkable, especially if tweaked a little to "Google Sites 2009 == GeoCities 1999".

Empires rise and fall fast on the net. Google is now a mish-mash of offerings which get uneven attention from their internal talent. 'Sites' itself is a successor to the soon-to-be-shuttered Google Page Creator (which unlike Sites allowed custom CSS and JS). A few key people leave, a couple bad quarters -- 'Sites' could get the axe too.