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Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by Jetroid »

joshmanders wrote: post #75
ploggingdev wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The route from the user's browser to Cloudflare is encrypted (https), but the route between Cloudflare's servers and github pages is only http as Github does not support https for custom domains. User Cloudflare Github pages

As long as your github page has https (it does) Cloudflare can do full HTTPS all the way through, and even strict to require a valid ssl cert (which github has).

Any tips on how to configure this? I'm pretty sure my setup has the problem that ploggingdev talked about.

I acknoledged the issue given, but considered it better that the content the user is accessing was hidden for their privacy - the link between Cloudflare and GitHub is backbone-of the internet stuff and has a whole different set of risks. Would be nice to plug it.

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by icpmacdo »

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.

Just wanted to say thats an AWESOME side project!!

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by garysieling »

icpmacdo wrote: post #83
garysieling wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just wanted to say thats an AWESOME side project!!

Thanks!

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by homakov »

Github Pages is a special type of hosting. It's first ever transparent hosting. What you see is what is in the repo. By wathching the repo people can be quite sure they won't be hacked or served special JS they dont expect. That's why I'd love to see paid plans.

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by joshmanders »

Jetroid wrote: post #81
joshmanders wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as your github page has https (it does) Cloudflare can do full HTTPS all the way through, and even strict to require a valid ssl cert (which github has).

Any tips on how to configure this? I'm pretty sure my setup has the problem that ploggingdev talked about. I acknoledged the issue given, but considered it better that the content the user is accessing was hidden for their privacy - the link between Cloudflare and GitHub is backbone-of the internet stuff and has a whole different set of risks. Would be nice to plug it.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170416-W...

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by user5994461 »

blackguardx wrote: post #70
newscracker wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For simple static pages (with no backend), I would highly recommend putting them on Nearly Free Speech (NFSN) [1] and using the free tier of CloudFlare in front of it. NFSN charges only for what you use, unlike hosts like hostgator and others that have a monthly payment of a few dollars, at the minimum. Excluding domain costs, it will cost you just pennies a year or a few dollars a year. You can also opt for cheaper…

I used to host some stuff on nearlyfreespeech. I liked the idea in principle, but keeping my account topped up and them charging me extra fees just to pay them became annoying. I switched to Amazon S3 and couldn't be happier. It was harder to setup but worth it.

If you run a personal site on S3 and you get HN level traffic, you're gonna get a very bad surprise on your bank account at the end of the month.

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by user5994461 »

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.

For simple sites, I'd advise http://wordpress.com/ it's free and it can take any traffic you throw at it.

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by user5994461 »

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...

Wow. That's actually quite low.

I would have topped both limits with any single article that went to the front page of HN :D

Note that this is only human traffic. Wordpress stats have good bot detection.

Re: GitHub Pages – Usage Limits

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Post by tedmiston »

joshmanders wrote: post #75
ploggingdev wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The route from the user's browser to Cloudflare is encrypted (https), but the route between Cloudflare's servers and github pages is only http as Github does not support https for custom domains. User Cloudflare Github pages

As long as your github page has https (it does) Cloudflare can do full HTTPS all the way through, and even strict to require a valid ssl cert (which github has).

I don't think this is correct for GitHub Page sites that use custom domains. See [1] and [2].

[1]: https://konklone.com/post/github-pages-now-supports-https-so...

[2]: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156

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