[detaro]

I don't think there is a useful distinction between PAGES and WEBSITES.

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)

[chiefalchemist]

The point is, they could have called them gh-sites. Yes. Words matter. #Duh

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.