I wonder if people start abusing this if Github were to put any restrictions on it somehow. For quick one off single page things sure why not, but if people start trying to host huge websites on Github? I'd be curious as to their response.
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#12I wonder if people start abusing this if Github were to put any restrictions on it somehow. For quick one off single page things sure why not, but if people start trying to host huge websites on Github? I'd be curious as to their response.
Yeah, this is ripe for abuse by pornographers. :(
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#14I miss Geocities
You know what? Me too. I miss Geocities and I never realized until just now. That was a great internet. The people's internet. I was 13 years old but I was allowed to make a website for free, with no help or direction from parents or teachers or anyone, with barely anything to learn. And when I was done it was there. It was a thing I made on the internet and I could show anyone. And I did, and it was probably embarra…
I wish I could upvote this comment more than once.
I remember getting on Geocities in 1996 and finding a burgeoning community, full of randomness and fun, all learning as we went along about how build websites. I remember mine was in the “Bourbon Street” “neighbourhood”.
I had a lot of fun that year, messing about on IRC, learning HTML, building (ugly :-) websites, helping others do the same. Can't believe I sound nostalgic about that place.
I think I'll set up my daughter (nearly 9, already has her own domain) with a GitHub account, and set up Pages so she can play with HTML, CSS and stuff.
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#15Is the ability to use custom domains free now? In the past I thought you had to be under one of the paid github plans.
Oddly enough, I don't see any mention of this in the github article explaining how to set up a custom domain: https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-...
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#16What it isn't: a dynamic host -- so it can't do PHP/Rails/Node etc.
Seems like a good opportunity for sever-less folks like WebScript.io or Firebase to jump in and help.
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#17I wonder if people start abusing this if Github were to put any restrictions on it somehow. For quick one off single page things sure why not, but if people start trying to host huge websites on Github? I'd be curious as to their response.
> I wonder if people start abusing this if Github were to put any restrictions on it somehow.
They'll have to restrict it to some extent, but neither is it 1995 anymore. GeoCities was able to make a go of 15MB per free website (with bandwidth caps) for 14 years (1995-2009), and it's still available in Japan, but I don't know the current terms.
Serving static content you don't pay for from storage you already own down pipes you already pay for is just about the cheapest way there is to be online by any metric. I wouldn't be surprised if they could support a fairly large number of websites without blinking.
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#18You can also create a static file blog with Jekyll https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll.
Pretty awesome and simple.
Re: How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github
#19What it isn't: a dynamic host -- so it can't do PHP/Rails/Node etc. Seems like a good opportunity for sever-less folks like WebScript.io or Firebase to jump in and help.
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#20Is the ability to use custom domains free now? In the past I thought you had to be under one of the paid github plans. Oddly enough, I don't see any mention of this in the github article explaining how to set up a custom domain: https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-...
In the root of your repo on the gh-pages branch:
echo example.com > CNAME
Then point it (if apex) at 207.97.227.245.