Hey folks! I've been exploring free website hosting and stumbled upon GitHub Pages. It seems great, with minimal limitations and support for various programming languages, but I hit a snag. According to their guidelines, there are two key limits:
* You can't exceed 1GB total storage.
* Monthly bandwidth is capped at 100GB (or something like that).
So, I'm curious: what does it actually take to fill up that 1GB? Is it a lot, or just a few lines of code? I'd love some examples of what can consume 1GB, since I'm not quite sure how programming languages or files fit into that space.
2 Answers
To give you a sense of scale, the complete works of Shakespeare are about 1/200th of a gigabyte. If your entire code history is less than 200 times that, you should be just fine. The catch is that images and binary files take up much more space than plain text, so if you add a bunch of images or videos, you might hit that 1GB limit faster than you think.
I appreciate the quick response! Just to clarify, what exactly is a binary file?
The total size includes everything in your repository, like static files and the final output of your build. If you're just dealing with code and HTML, 1GB is actually quite large. For instance, I could set up a fake blog with about 3000 pages without hitting that limit. But the moment you start adding images, audio, or video, you'll notice the size creeping up quickly. A good practice is to link media from services like Cloudinary, instead of packing it all into your repo.
My GitHub Pages site is currently at 4GB, and I get warnings that deployment might fail due to size, but it still runs for now. Check it out: janericnitschke.github.io/cs2_meeting_points/.