Ask HN: My GitHub Pages site went viral. 120k requests and 6 gigs. What do I do?
So I built nesteggly.com. Literally an MVP I cooked up over the past couple of months to help my gf plan her retirement. Being a 100% static website and not thinking many people would find it very interesting I decided to host it on GitHub Pages.
Fast forward to the last 24 hours. I've had over 120,000 page views and 6 gigs of bandwidth consumed. Fortunately I'd just set up Cloudflare and GitHub only delivered about 2 gigs of that. I haven't received a call from GitHub yet and my site seems to still be up and responsive.
Fast forward to the last 24 hours. I've had over 120,000 page views and 6 gigs of bandwidth consumed. Fortunately I'd just set up Cloudflare and GitHub only delivered about 2 gigs of that. I haven't received a call from GitHub yet and my site seems to still be up and responsive.
The questions at the top of my mind:
Is this an appropriate use of GitHub Pages?
Should I be concerned they'll shut me down?
What's the best way to host a 100% static site?