...if you give something for free and don't set limits, people will find ways to abuse it ...and then you'll have limits for everyone ...I ask all web developers out there to not use Github pages for clients' websites, it's not like you don't have room in the budget for almost-free webhosting for static websites, it's probably something like 0.(...)1% of website maintenance and dev costs and there already are free blog hosting services. use github for your website/blog, you family's, your pet's, but not for your clients', please...
A lot of clients are actually willing to pay for you to host their site, just as long as they don't have to do anything technical. We're talking £350 for a year in a lot of cases and the site could simply be an addon domain on a package with a few sites on it. This also includes a walk through of setting up emails on Outlook, iPhone or what have you.
They just don't care because you end up doing something that takes you 5 minutes and little to no energy which would be next to impossible for them.
Since the margins are so high, you also have freedom to make nice discounts without a loss.
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...if you give something for free and don't set limits, people will find ways to abuse it ...and then you'll have limits for everyone ...I ask all web developers out there to not use Github pages for clients' websites, it's not like you don't have room in the budget for almost-free webhosting for static websites, it's probably something like 0.(...)1% of website maintenance and dev costs and there already are free blog hosting services. use github for your website/blog, you family's, your pet's, but not for your clients', please...
A lot of clients are actually willing to pay for you to host their site, just as long as they don't have to do anything technical. We're talking £350 for a year in a lot of cases and the site could simply be an addon domain on a package with a few sites on it. This also includes a walk through of setting up emails on Outlook, iPhone or what have you.
They just don't care because you end up doing something that takes you 5 minutes and little to no energy which would be next to impossible for them.
Since the margins are so high, you also have freedom to make nice discounts without a loss.