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Just move to vercel while they're still free. Or Microsoft github pages. Or Atlassian bitbucket pages. Or Netlify personal. There is plenty of choice for fr

Just move to vercel while they're still free. Or Microsoft github pages. Or Atlassian bitbucket pages. Or Netlify personal. There is plenty of choice for free static hosting, within certain limits and that's basically marketing cost for their main business. If that were to disappear because of recession / lack of VC money, we still have free cloudflare and if that were to fail and we need to start paying, bunnyCDN is fairly cheap.

Xylakant 4y ago
Note that GitHub pages explicitly disallows using it for commercial pages, so this is not an option for any kind business website. See https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/about-github-pages#limits-on-use-of-github-pages https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github... “ Prohibited uses GitHub Pages is not intended for or allowed to be used as a free web-hosting service to run your online business, e-commerce site, or any other website that is primarily directed at either facilitating commercial transactions or providing commercial software as a service (SaaS). GitHub Pages sites shouldn't be used for sensitive transactions like sending passwords or credit card numbers.”
- svkurowski 4y ago
  Sounds to me like they mean e-commerce-like sites, not websites for your average offline business
  - regularfry 4y ago
    All business websites exist to facilitate commercial transactions. All of them.
    - Xylakant 4y ago
      it's at least unclear what falls under that very wide umbrella term, so any prudent business would stay clear off the github pages for their business website.
spyke112 4y ago
Vercel is not free if you want to use a repo in a Gitlab Group. It's kind of like Github organizations. They claim that a "team" is needed, in order to enable collaborations, and that is not free. So not really a viable alternative in this case.
- benmanns 4y ago
  Vercel is also only free "For personal or non-commercial projects." Otherwise starting at $20/mo/user no matter how few builds, requests, or bandwidth.

Xylakant 4y ago

Note that GitHub pages explicitly disallows using it for commercial pages, so this is not an option for any kind business website. See https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/about-github-pages#limits-on-use-of-github-pages https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github... “ Prohibited uses GitHub Pages is not intended for or allowed to be used as a free web-hosting service to run your online business, e-commerce site, or any other website that is primarily directed at either facilitating commercial transactions or providing commercial software as a service (SaaS). GitHub Pages sites shouldn't be used for sensitive transactions like sending passwords or credit card numbers.”

svkurowski 4y ago
Sounds to me like they mean e-commerce-like sites, not websites for your average offline business
- regularfry 4y ago
  All business websites exist to facilitate commercial transactions. All of them.
  - Xylakant 4y ago
    it's at least unclear what falls under that very wide umbrella term, so any prudent business would stay clear off the github pages for their business website.

spyke112 4y ago

Vercel is not free if you want to use a repo in a Gitlab Group. It's kind of like Github organizations. They claim that a "team" is needed, in order to enable collaborations, and that is not free. So not really a viable alternative in this case.

benmanns 4y ago
Vercel is also only free "For personal or non-commercial projects." Otherwise starting at $20/mo/user no matter how few builds, requests, or bandwidth.