GitHub Pages (Fastly-served, 1 GB site)

pages.github.comPaaSstorage/github-pagesJSON compare report an error provider JSON

Free allowance: "Published GitHub Pages sites may be no larger than 1 GB"; source repositories "recommended limit of 1 GB".
Verdict: fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost: free tier
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: noneno named constraint binds
Evidence: reported2 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	"Published GitHub Pages sites may be no larger than 1 GB"; source repositories "recommended limit of 1 GB". Bandwidth: "a soft bandwidth limit of 100 GB per month". unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	100 GB/month soft cap, then throttling or a support email; served from Fastly ('Via: 1.1 varnish, X-Served-By: cache-bom-...'). Free to Cloudflare in front. free allowance: 100 GB per month
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	git git
Tooling	git push to a pages branch, or actions/deploy-pages; any static generator. No special client needed.
Composes with	one site per account ('You can only create one user or organization site for each account'), so multiplication is accounts x 1 GB — hundreds of accounts for a TB. Poor.
Reliability	Soft limits are enforced by support action rather than by hard rejection; rate limiting returns 429.

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/g	'Published GitHub Pages sites may be no larger than 1 GB'; 'soft bandwidth limit of 100 GB per month'
2026-10-21	source not published	probe: GET pages.github.com -> 200, Via: 1.1 varnish, X-Served-By: cache-bom-vanm7210067-BOM (Fastly)

More fields 1

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "egress",
  "why": "\"Published GitHub Pages sites may be no larger than 1 GB\"; source repositories \"recommended limit of 1 GB\". Bandwidth: \"a *soft* bandwidth limit of 100 GB per month\".",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown values 5

$.binding_note boilerplate
$.per_object_cap.notes the field may be stated in a source that was not read
$.per_object_cap.stated the field may be stated in a source that was not read
$.retention.notes the field may be stated in a source that was not read
$.retention.stated the field may be stated in a source that was not read