How is it that scipy.org's bandwidth usage is that much greater than
matplotlib.org's? We are quite image-heavy, but we haven't hit any
bandwidth limits that I am aware of.

Ben Root

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Bryan Van de ven <bry...@continuum.io>
wrote:

> 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
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