[Numpy-discussion] Move scipy.org docs to Github?

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The scipy.org site is down at the moment, and has been for more than 36
> hours:
>
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/8779#issue-213781439
>
> This has happened before:
>
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org/issues/187#issue-186426408
>
> I think it was down for about 24 hours that time.
>
> From the number of people opening issues or commenting on the
> scipy.org website this time, it seems to be causing quite a bit of
> disruption.
>
> It seems to me that we would have a much better chances of avoiding
> significant down-time, if we switched to hosting the docs on github
> pages.
>
> What do y'all think?
>

Once the site is back up we should look at migrating to a better (hosted)
infrastructure. I suspect that Github Pages won't work, we'll exceed or be
close to exceeding both the 1 GB site size limit and the 100 GB/month
bandwidth limit [1].

Rough bandwidth estimate (using page size from
http://scipy.github.io/devdocs/ and Alexa stats): 2 million visits per
month, 2.5 page views per visit, 5 kb/page = 25 GB/month (html). Add to
that pdf docs, which are ~20 MB in size: if only a small fraction of
visitors download those, we'll be at >100 GB.

Ralf

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-github-pages/#usage-limits
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