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I recently had my student license expire for Github Pro and could no longer publish new builds of my portfolio. Had to transition to Cloudflare pages, and it w
by TobyTheDog123 4y ago
I recently had my student license expire for Github Pro and could no longer publish new builds of my portfolio.
Had to transition to Cloudflare pages, and it works like a charm.
I don't entirely understand why GitHub paywalls static hosting when so many other platforms can offer it for free. Different business, different revenue streams, sure, but surely they have the resources for it, and it's not like there aren't quality, free alternatives, so I can't see it being driving factor people use to sign up.
- naet 4y agoI host many things free on Github pages without any kind of Pro account... what is being paywalled?
- hk1337 4y agoSince when was it pay walled? What were you having trouble with because it seems to be available to me when I look at it.
- jackson1442 4y agois the repo private? I think it has to be public to use Pages on a free plan. edit: just confirmed, https://github.com/pricing#compare-features https://github.com/pricing#compare-features
- humanistbot 4y agoIt is only paywalled if you want to keep your source repo private, which usually isn't an issue because you're serving the contents of that repo as a web site anyway.
- TobyTheDog123 4y agoedit: Yep, private repo. However the point still stands as the free Cloudflare Pages plan doesn't publish your source code.
- lopkeny12ko 4y agoThe biggest issue I have with Cloudflare Pages, and the only barrier to my adoption, is the 25 MB per-file size limit. The per-file limit for Github Pages is 100 MB. Never really understood why the CF limit is so restrictive--a file greater than 25 MB is commonplace for static serving, and static asset servers like nginx are explicitly very good at serving such large files.