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Re:GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow by philip1209 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @12:36PM (#7739030)
If you are technical enough to understand (and care about) the implications of this issue, consider hosting on S3. Hosting costs me about $2 per month on lower-traffic websites. The s3_website gem makes it straightforward. Response times are reasonable and inelastic with regard to traffic.

If you are aiming for the fastest speed possible, check out the s3_website gem support for Cloudfront - you can host your whole static website through a CDN.

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Re:GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow by atmosx on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @12:46PM (#7739094)
Aren't we all technical enough to understand the implications? The author makes clear, the blog is hosted on DigitalOcean.

The thing is that very few blogger drive enough traffic to make money out of their blog[1]. If that's not the case, then why bother? If the content is good and free then waiting 2 seconds more is acceptable IMHO. :-)

[1]: http://daringfireball.net/ - JG being probably the most prominent example.

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