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

[Ilhan Polat]

By the way, this is not bad at all in the absence of the actual
documentation http://devdocs.io/numpy~1.12/

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Ilhan Polat <ilhanpolat at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the meantime maybe it's a good idea to keep one of the issues open so
> that people can see that this is an open issue? As we close them they
> disappear from the issues tab on Github
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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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