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Github already hosts lot of code and allows free downloads. By hosting a static site, we essentially are hosting an HTML file which can be downloaded. Unless the site is of very High traffic, it is already sustainable for Github.Consider for example the amount of users who download Bootstrap from Github everyday.

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re: high traffic. A buddy and I hosted the static parts of our privacy activism page youropenbook on github pages (it was initially all static). This was during the privacy scandal of spring 2010 and as our traffic really ramped up we sent a message to the github folks to see if they minded at all.

They gave the go ahead.

We served millions of pageviews, had a significant impact on the debate at the time, and github pages took it like a champ.

Do people basically hotlink the Bootstrap CSS, for example? I just presumed most fork it into their own project (or, say as a submodule) and then host it on their own server.

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