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Well, I think this questions would benefit more people so I'll ask in public: are there any plans for a commercial offering? Thanks!

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What do you mean by commercial offering? A paid version of GitHub Pages? What would you want to see in a paid offering that couldn't be baked into the current version?

Paid version, something that would rival web page hosting. Regarding features, I'm mostly thinking about the possibility of basing business on top of Github, for example uptime guarantees and notifications before termination in case of abuse. Maybe even stuff like throttling instead of pulling the plug in case of DDoS.

If these can be added to the free version, cool! :)

Check out Netlify (https://www.netlify.com), we're pretty much like a paid version of Github pages.

Full SSL support, integrated build automation (not just for Jekyll), redirects, built-in performance optimizations, rewrite rules, proxying, fine grained HTTP header control, integration with prerender services, etc, etc...

We can also do custom plans with true DDoS mitigation.

I'd love to see private pages for private repos. GitHub pages are often used to present the project from the repo to the public.

Why not use them to present customer projects (in private repos) to your customers? As long the pages are public this is pretty often a no-go.

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