+[[!meta date="2008-12-29 14:58:54 -0500"]]
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Here's how to set up a static wiki or blog using ikiwiki with no hosting
fees. Everything is hosted on github, both the git repository and the web
site. Your laptop is used to generate and publish changes to it.
This is possible because github now supports
[github pages](http://github.com/blog/272-github-pages).
-Note that github limits free accounts to 100 mb of git storage. It's
+Note that github limits free accounts to 100 MB of git storage. It's
unlikely that a small wiki or blog will outgrow this, but we are keeping
two copies of the website in git (source and the compiled site), and all
historical versions too. So it could happen. If it does, you can pay github
## Local Setup
* On your laptop, create two empty git repositories to correspond to the github repositories: <br />
- `YOU = your github username here` <br />
+ `YOU=your github username here` <br />
`mkdir ~/$YOU.github.com` <br />
`cd ~/$YOU.github.com` <br />
`git init` <br />