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GitHub Pages alternative · Nov 2026

GitHub Pages hosts your repo. Fylo runs your website.

GitHub Pages is excellent for project docs and developer portfolios. A business website is different: the people who change it don’t use git, it has to collect leads, and it has to rank. Fylo.Host is complete static site hosting with a built-in blog, auto-SEO and auto-speed, plus a visual page editor that anyone on the team can use.

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Fylo isn’t free hosting. You get a 7-day trial with every Starter feature and no card.

Read before you launch

GitHub’s own rules draw a line around business use

The GitHub Pages limits page says Pages is not meant to be a free host for running an online business, an e-commerce site or a commercial SaaS, and shouldn’t handle sensitive data like passwords or card numbers. Here’s how that plays out for common sites.

Pages is not to be used as “a free web-hosting service to run your online business”

From GitHub Pages limits, GitHub Docs. The same section adds e-commerce and commercial SaaS sites.
FitsDocs for an open-source project, a developer portfolio, a conference talk page.
Grey areaA small business brochure site that mainly exists to bring in customers. Read the policy and decide.
Not for itA store, a SaaS signup or pricing page, a booking site, or anything whose main job is a transaction.
On FyloBusiness and client sites are the point. Every plan, the trial included.
The limits, as numbers

GitHub Pages’ spec sheet next to Fylo’s

GitHub’s limits are generous for a docs site. They’re built around repositories and builds, not around the people running a website.

Limit
GitHub Pages
Fylo.Host
Pricefor the site itself
$0 from a public repo
$6.99/mo Starter, after a 7-day free trial
Who can see your sourceHTML, drafts, images
Everyone on GitHub Free; a private repo needs a paid GitHub plan
Only you. Visitors see the rendered site
Site size
1 GB published, 1 GB repo recommended
500 MB Starter, 2 GB Pro, 10 GB Business
Traffic
100 GB/mo soft bandwidth limit
25,000 visits/mo Starter, up to 1,000,000 on Business
Publishinghow often, how long
10 builds/hr soft limit; deploys time out after 10 min
No builds. Edits and uploads go live in seconds
Server-side features
None. Forms and analytics come from third parties
Forms, leads inbox and analytics built in
Undo a bad change
git revert and rebuild
Restore any of the last 5 to 10 versions in one click

GitHub figures from GitHub Pages limits and GitHub’s plans page, checked 9 Nov 2026. The 10-builds limit doesn’t apply when you deploy with a custom GitHub Actions workflow.

Fylo’s biggest feature · Pages

The visual editor GitHub Pages never had

Pages opens your uploaded site and lets you change it like a document. Your developer builds the site once. After that, the marketing lead fixes copy, the owner swaps photos and the intern adds a new service page without touching a repository.

  • Edit any existing page in place: headings, paragraphs, links, images and video embeds.
  • New pages in seconds. Duplicate a page you like, or start blank with your site’s header and footer already in place.
  • Drafts, Published and Trash, like WordPress. Nothing goes live until you press Publish.
  • SEO built into every page: editable title, URL and description, live SEO checks, and a sitemap and Markdown copy that update on publish.
  • Paste HTML when you need to. The code view and file editor are still there for developers.
Second biggest · Forms & leads

A contact form that works without Formspree

GitHub Pages can’t run server code, so every contact form on it posts to a third-party service, with another account, another dashboard and often another bill. On Fylo the form, the spam filter and the inbox are part of the hosting.

  • Paste one snippet into your page, or let your AI agent add it.
  • Leads land in the dashboard and your inbox, with CSV export when you need a spreadsheet.
  • Spam filtering plus an optional maths captcha. Only real leads count toward your quota.
  • 1,000 leads a month on Pro and 3,000 on Business.
<!-- copied from Forms → Setup -->
<form method="POST" action="https://fylo.host/api/forms/fk_…">
  <!-- hidden spam traps -->
  name · email · message · optional captcha
</form>
Fylo vs GitHub Pages

Who on your team can do each job?

A feature list tells you what a host can do. This table tells you who has to be in the room for each job.

The jobOn GitHub PagesOn Fylo.Host
Fix a typo or a pricedeveloperEdit, commit, push, wait for the buildanyoneClick, type, Publish in Pages
Add a new service pagedeveloperNew file or Jekyll layout, then a buildanyoneDuplicate a page, or start blank with your header and footer
Publish a blog postdeveloperMarkdown in _posts/ with front matteranyoneRich-text editor with categories, authors, comments and RSS
Collect enquiries3rd-partySign up for a form serviceanyoneForms and a leads inbox are built in (Pro+)
See who visited3rd-partyAdd an analytics script and its cookie banneranyonePages, referrers and countries in the dashboard
Make the site fastdeveloperCompress images and minify by hand or in CIautomaticWebP, font subsetting, minification and lazy loading on paid plans
Get indexed and cited by AIdeveloperjekyll-sitemap, plus writing llms.txt yourselfautomaticsitemap.xml, robots.txt, llms.txt, schema and .md copies on publish
Find broken linksdeveloperA link-checker action you set upautomaticScanned after every upload, with a one-click fix
Undo yesterday’s mistakedevelopergit revert and rebuildanyoneRestore a version from the site menu
Hand the site to a clientdeveloperTeach them git, or stay on callanyoneGive them the dashboard login
For the developer on the team

You can still automate everything

Moving the website off GitHub Pages doesn’t mean giving up scripts. The code can stay in your repo, and the deploy becomes an API call or an agent command.

REST API, on every plan

Create a key in Settings → API. Send one HTML page, or a whole multi-file site as a files[] array. A PUT updates the same URL.

# publish a page
curl -X POST https://fylo.host/api/v1/sites \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLO_KEY" \
  -d '{"html":"<!doctype html>..."}'

API reference →

Coding agents and chat apps

Install the Fylo skill in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor and say “publish this folder.” In Claude or ChatGPT, add the MCP connector for 23 tools covering sites, versions, blog posts, forms, analytics, speed and domains.

# coding agents
npx skills add raviblogger/fylo-host-skill --skill fylo -g
# chat apps (MCP)
https://fylo.host/mcp

MCP setup →

An honest split

Keep GitHub Pages for code. Move the business.

Stay on GitHub Pages if

  • The site documents code that already lives in a public repository.
  • Everyone who edits it is comfortable with git and pull requests.
  • It has to be free, and a public repo is fine.
  • You rely on Jekyll themes or a docs generator that builds from Markdown in the repo.
  • Nobody needs forms, a leads inbox or a non-technical editor.

Move to Fylo if

  • It’s a business, client or product site that sells, books or captures leads.
  • People without git need to edit pages, publish posts or swap images.
  • You want enquiries, analytics and a blog in the same dashboard as the site.
  • You care about Core Web Vitals and showing up in Google and AI answers, without writing the plumbing yourself.
  • Your source files and drafts shouldn’t be public.
From a repo to a live Fylo site

Moving off GitHub Pages without broken links

The usual problems are uploading source instead of the built site, a leftover /repo/ base path, and DNS that still points at GitHub. Here’s how to avoid each one.

01 · GET THE BUILT SITE

Upload output, not source

Plain HTML repo: on GitHub, use Code → Download ZIP. Static generator: build locally and upload the output folder.

# Jekyll → upload _site/
bundle exec jekyll build
# Hugo → upload public/
hugo --minify
02 · FIX THE BASE PATH

Drop the /repo/ prefix

Project sites live at username.github.io/repo/, so assets often load from /repo/css/.... On your own domain that path doesn’t exist.

  • Jekyll: set baseurl: "" and url to your domain in _config.yml
  • Hugo: set baseURL to your domain
  • Then rebuild before you zip
03 · UPLOAD AND CHECK

Upload, then let Fylo find what broke

Start the trial and drag the folder or ZIP into the dashboard. It goes live on a fylo.live address for testing. Then run Fix Broken URLs from the site menu to catch links still pointing at github.io or the old base path. The CNAME and .nojekyll files from your repo are harmless and can stay.

04 · MOVE THE DOMAIN

Swap GitHub’s records for Fylo’s

In the repo, open Settings → Pages and remove the custom domain. At your registrar, delete the A records pointing at GitHub (185.199.108.153 to .111.153) and the www CNAME to github.io. Then add the records Fylo shows under Domains. SSL is issued automatically.

Keeping the old github.io link alive? Replace the repo’s index.html with a small page that has a canonical link and a meta refresh pointing at your new domain, so old bookmarks still land somewhere useful.

FAQ

What GitHub Pages users ask us

If the site documents code and only developers edit it, don’t pay; GitHub Pages is the right tool. Fylo is for sites that need a visual editor, forms and leads, a blog, automatic SEO files and speed optimization, and business use without a policy question. Plans start at $6.99/month after a 7-day free trial with no card.
GitHub’s docs say Pages isn’t intended or allowed as a free host for running an online business, an e-commerce site or a commercial SaaS, or for sensitive transactions. A portfolio or project page is fine. For a site whose job is selling or capturing customers, read the policy carefully or use a host built for it. Business sites are allowed on every Fylo plan.
No. You upload a folder or ZIP, and from then on the Pages tab lets you edit text, images and links visually, add pages and publish. Developers can still use the file editor, the REST API or an AI agent.
Yes. Keep the repository for version control and publish the built site with the REST API (single page or a multi-file files[] array), the Fylo skill for coding agents, or the MCP connector. API keys are available on every plan.
Yes, as long as you upload the built output (_site/ for Jekyll, public/ for Hugo) rather than the source. Fylo serves static files and doesn’t run the generator. Set the base URL to your domain before building so asset links resolve.
On Pro and Business, create a form under Forms → Setup and paste the snippet into your page, or ask your AI agent to do it. Leads appear in the dashboard and your inbox, spam is filtered, an optional maths captcha is available, and you can export to CSV.
No. Only the rendered website is public. On GitHub Free, a Pages site has to come from a public repository; building from a private repo needs a paid GitHub plan, and on Pro or Team the site itself is still public.
It keeps serving whatever is in the repo until you turn Pages off. To send old visitors to the new site, replace the repo’s index.html with a page that has a canonical link and a meta refresh to your new domain.
Fylo plans count visits instead of gigabytes: 25,000 a month on Starter, 150,000 on Pro and 1,000,000 on Business. Sites are served from Cloudflare’s edge in 330+ cities, and paid plans include an edge cache with a median time to first byte of about 100 ms on live sites.
Yes. The trial includes every Starter feature, a custom domain among them, with no card. Without a plan, trial sites pause on day 7 and are deleted on day 30.
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