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

[Daπid]

What about readthedocs? I haven't seen any explicit limit in traffic.

On 15 March 2017 at 16:33, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 2:47 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.
>
> Maybe we could host the PDF docs somewhere else?   I wonder if Github
> would consider allowing us to go a bit over if necessary?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
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