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Only tangentially related, but I sometimes wonder if GitHub's management regret making GitHub Pages available for free, now that it's being used so heavily for

• ceejayoz 11y ago
  If it was able to run off a single server for that long, I suspect the goodwill it engendered (as well as the familiarity with Git/Github.com it built in a lot of people) was well worth the minimal resources and cost it entailed.
• dyladan 11y ago
  I doubt it. After seeing how simple the architecture is to run it, I'm sure it's a drop in the proverbial bucket. Pages drives traffic to the site and in order to serve a site from a private repo you have to be a paying customer anyways.
• holman 11y ago
  I never heard anyone gripe about it... not even once. The cost is pretty negligible, and there's a lot of halo benefit (i.e., you just get more people involved on GitHub the platform itself). The fact that a lot of non-technical employees in marketing and other fields are using it for corporate blogs is actually a nice bit of pressure on the organization to make Pages and web editing even simpler for those users. It becomes harder to lean on "oh it's a developer site so they'll figure it out". Mostly, though, I think it's just a matter that we wanted it for ourselves. It's pretty awesome from an industry bystander's perspective to have something free, simple, and static, so we can all benefit from more stable docs, blogs, and so on. Maybe that'll change in the future and something Totally Different will change the industry, but for right now I think it's pretty rad, and totally worth the investment.
  • sneak 11y ago
    You've just optimized for my happiness. Thank you.