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Ask HN : Should I serve files from GitHub?

Post by dan_sim » Mon, Apr 26, 2010, 3:04 PM UTC

I'm writing a javascript library and I want people to have an easy access to it. Is it wrong to suggest to use GitHub as the file server? I assume they are under CDN but I don't know how to be sure. I also assume that it's not against their policy but I didn't find that information.

The idea comes from : http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery#CDN_Hosted_jQuery

Re: Ask HN : Should I serve files from GitHub?

Post by tomh- » Mon, Apr 26, 2010, 5:00 PM UTC

No you shouldn't, most likely files in the repo are not under CDN due to the nature of it. They change frequently so there is no point to cache them.

Re: Ask HN : Should I serve files from GitHub?

Post by Popcorn » Mon, Apr 26, 2010, 5:50 PM UTC

Repositories can go offline while they're being moved to a new server, not so good for your website. I would suggest putting it on Amazon S3.

Re: Ask HN : Should I serve files from GitHub?

Post by cmelbye » Mon, Apr 26, 2010, 9:27 PM UTC

I wouldn't. Showing an image stored in a repository (using their raw URLs) is unbearably slow in most cases. If you've ever seen their post-update hook page, the help text always loads slow for me because it's just doing an AJAX request to the raw URL for the documentation that is stored in a repo.

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