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Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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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...

Actually, 100,000 requests per month is a little less than a req per second. Which means that if you want to have all the services that GH is offering, I guess you would pay quite a lot (relatively speaking).

100 K Requests are really not much. The page itself, some css, some scripts, some images and you hit the 100 K with less visitors.

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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At least they have enabled https... I am using to for a longer time and didnt know it was possible until now.

But not for custom domains, sadly.

How would Github "enable" HTTPS for custom domains? Do you want them to provide you with a free certificate for every custom domain you add?

On the other hand, if you _do_ possess a cert for your custom domain, then HTTPS works just fine [1].

[1]: https://rishav.js.org

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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##### EDIT: The title for this link started as "GitHub Pages sets usage limits", but was changed to "What is GitHub Pages?" by an HN moderator, putting this post (and most of the discussion going on in here) completely out of context. I don't agree with this decision. Most HN readers know what Github Pages is - it's the new usage caps that are the news here. Those caps are new - I've been tracking Github Pages for years, and the only cap they previously set was the 1GB repo size (total changes ever) limit, and occasional heresay from people that used to work on it: https://www.quora.com/What-are-bandwidth-and-traffic-limits-...

https://neocities.org free plan, for comparison:

Storage: 100MB (1GB by end of January).

Bandwidth: 50GB (never been enforced, many sites are over and it's fine).

SSL: Yes (forced SSL starting Jan 1st).

Change limit: one per minute, never enforced.

Number of hits: No set limit, would be in the millions if I did.

Number of changes: No set limit, not enforced, probably never will be.

But our usage limits aren't going down - they're constantly going up as we upgrade and improve our infrastructure. In fact, due to some upgrades to our anycast CDN I'm going to raise the BW limit to 200GB right now. Merry Christmas.

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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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...

Spot on. They're PAGES for info and such, not free WEBSITES.

This is why we can't have nice things. People don't accept a no that's free, when clearly they should.

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

#30

hum... that's strange move after Gitlab releases the "pages" feature also on their product. Definitely want to see more something like free tier and being able to have more if having a paid plan.'

Again, as pointed out multiple times in this thread, this isn't new.
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