Avoid email and cloud storage full alerts and service disruptions

The ask

Users experience critical email service disruptions when their shared cloud storage quota is unexpectedly consumed. This can happen when multiple services, such as photo backups, use the same storage pool, leading to email blockage without clear prior warning. Such interruptions are highly frustrating, especially during important times like overseas travel. Users may panic and delete essential data without understanding the root cause, such as auto-syncing photos filling the storage. There is a clear need for a solution that offers better visibility into shared storage usage across all linked services. It should provide clear alerts before critical limits are reached and ideally prevent email service from being blocked even when other parts of the shared storage are full.

Flamas collected this from a public request on Ask HN, on Oct 9, 2026. Read the original. Nobody has been emailed about it, and the count above is only the people who have said they want it here.