NumPy is a NumFocus fiscally sponsored project, perhaps they can help with the costs of different/better hosting.
Bryan > On Mar 15, 2017, at 07:24, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Mar 15, 2017 02:47, "Ralf Gommers" <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@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. > > No matter where we go, we can likely reduce the endpoint bandwidth > requirements substantially by putting something like cloudflare's free tier > in front. That doesn't help for the actual disk size though of course... > > -n > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
