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FYI there is an alternative to Github Pages + Cloudflare if you want to use Let's Encrypt using the same features of Github Pages: Gitlab Pages. It allows you to add your own certificates with the only downside that there is no good option to enforce HTTPS (only workarounds, at least for now; there is a discussion on the matter [1]), if this is a problem for you the solution is (Github|Gitlab|Bitbucket)+Netlify, which, personally, I find to be perfect.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/28857

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> the only downside [is] that there is no good option to enforce HTTPS

You also have to use GitLab.

I much prefer GitLab to GitHub.

Besides aversion to any particular vendor in general, is there a reason you wouldn't want to use them?

I maintain a couple open source projects on Github that belong to the US Government. Getting them open sourced at all was hard enough. Convincing the powers that be to let me use Gitlab isn't practical.

That's very interesting! I wonder if there's anyone at GitLab interested in becoming an approved vendor for the US government/DOD. I also wonder if the code.mil people are interested in getting the ball rolling on that from their end.

Open source means the project can be redistributed by any user. So any user, including yourself, can re-host the project on Gitlab.

Couldn't you just fork it yourself on gitlab? Or any random person fork it?

I assume the intersection of projects that need a no-budget solution for hosting an https site and projects that belong to the US government is zero.

Am I missing something?

I mean, yes, if you have practical problems that make gitlab harder to use, don't use it. No problem at all. But it is still a perfectly valid solution for the problem the GP was trying to solve.

Only for Pages, though. (Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried the following setup myself, since I run my own server.) GitLab supports repository mirroring, so you can keep using GitHub for everything else. When you push code to GitHub, it will be automatically pulled into GitLab and trigger the CI job for Pages, generating and publishing the site.

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