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Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by throwanem »

garysieling wrote: post #7
blobman wrote: post #3

If you're getting over the bandwidth limit of 100GB or 100,000 requests per month, you could definitely afford to host your site elsewhere...

My blog gets about 19k uniques a month for which linode shows bandwidth as 39GB. I have a side project ( https://www.findlectures.com ) that got 60k page views this month, but only because it was linked in lifehacker & The Next Web. Between scrapers and HTTP requests that do feature detection, the number of requests would easily be 10x the number of users.

And since you mention Linode, which has no free tier, you must be able to afford to host your site somewhere other than Github Pages. So that works out quite well!

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by progx »

What they mean with 100.000 Requests / Month? Requests are normally every file access, not a user visit.

I have small OS-Projekt with ~20.000 Visitors / Month, 1 Pager with some Scripts and Images. This page has more than 100.000 Requests and less than 2 GB Traffic.

I know that github pages are not their primary use case, but then they should better drop the support completely or add a support plan. (i would pay for it)

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by Acalyptol »

I've seen multiple amateur projects handle the Reddit hug like champs because they were static front-ends hosted on GitHub Pages with cautious AJAX calls to backend APIs. With a limit on 100,000 requests per month (which could be consumed in a few hours in such case) I guess this era is over.

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by rickyc091 »

JamieF1 wrote: post #10

Is this not a chance for github to make some money? I'm about to launch a site on github pages (simple html site, no backend) and there's a tiny chance of it going viral. If it were to reach the 100k limit for requests I'd be more than happy paying github to keep it hosted there. I already have hosting with the likes of hostgator but they probably couldn't even handle 100k like github would.

There's also surge.sh which is pretty good for static sites. It's essentially Heroku but works with a single HTML file. It's free as well.

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by impappl »

Acalyptol wrote: post #14

I've seen multiple amateur projects handle the Reddit hug like champs because they were static front-ends hosted on GitHub Pages with cautious AJAX calls to backend APIs. With a limit on 100,000 requests per month (which could be consumed in a few hours in such case) I guess this era is over.

This has been around for a long time (see other answers in this thread), so if you've seen any site handle the Reddit hug in the last year, no reason anything should change.

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by impappl »

Acalyptol wrote: post #14

I've seen multiple amateur projects handle the Reddit hug like champs because they were static front-ends hosted on GitHub Pages with cautious AJAX calls to backend APIs. With a limit on 100,000 requests per month (which could be consumed in a few hours in such case) I guess this era is over.

This has been around for a long time (see other answers in this thread), so if you've seen any site handle the Reddit hug in the last year, no reason anything should change.
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