If you're getting over the bandwidth limit of 100GB or 100,000 requests per month, you could definitely afford to host your site elsewhere...
(This is with ~15k pageviews-not-from-bots per month.)
I would have topped both limits with any single article that went to the front page of HN :D
Note that this is only human traffic. Wordpress stats have good bot detection.
This is why we can't have nice things. People don't accept a no that's free, when clearly they should.
This is why we can have nice things. People always push up against limits as long as they aren't shut down.
gh-pages.
The intent of GH's offer is to assist and support OS projects. Not let some wiseass freeloader treat GH like a proper hosting company. Clearly ppl are taking advantage of that, but GH is the bad guy/gal?
gh-pages.
Geez. Why did I bother? Words? They have no value.
https://pages.github.com/ advertises Websites for you and your projects., and I imagine most of the examples they show at the top get more than 100k requests, since that's not all that much for e.g. documentation or demos for a reasonably popular project. (Although it is possible that the corporate-backed projects in there actually pay for Github, just not specifically for Pages).
Just to make it clear, I'm not criticising GitHub here: It seems like they uses this a guideline/reasoning help for when someone doesn't play nice, not as strict rules to enforce, which seems totally fair. They should absolutely do something against sites misusing this service. Demanding money for commercial use would also be possible option. (they of course are also free to make strict rules for all pages, but that would have a large impact for quite a few projects I imagine)
If your "pages" are pulling that much traffic then put on your big boy (or girl) trousers, take off the training wheels and get a proper website. GH is not a hosting service. They're "kind" enough to offer free repos and that's not good enough? Y'all have lost your perspective.
Just like there's a difference between pages and sites, there's a difference between grateful and ungrateful. Y'all are like the guest that never leaves, never cleans up, never buys food, etc. That's just not reasonable.
There are 86400 seconds in a day. At a little under a request per second, you're going to hit 100k some time around 3am on the second day, depending on what you take "a little under" to mean.