diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 449dab31c5c..cb155875496 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -6,5 +6,4 @@ recursive-include docs *.ipynb *.txt *.py Makefile *.rst
 recursive-include examples *.py
 
 prune docs/_build
-prune docs/gh-pages
 include numba/_version.py
diff --git a/docs/gh-pages.py b/docs/gh-pages.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c8093d0661..00000000000
--- a/docs/gh-pages.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,150 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-"""Script to commit the doc build outputs into the github-pages repo.
-
-Use:
-
-  gh-pages.py [tag]
-
-If no tag is given, the current output of 'git describe' is used.  If given,
-that is how the resulting directory will be named.
-
-In practice, you should use either actual clean tags from a current build or
-something like 'current' as a stable URL for the most current version of the """
-from __future__ import print_function, division, absolute_import
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Imports
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-import os
-import re
-import shutil
-import sys
-from os import chdir as cd
-from os.path import join as pjoin
-
-from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, CalledProcessError, check_call
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Globals
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-pages_dir = 'gh-pages'
-html_dir = '_build/html'
-pdf_dir = '_build/latex'
-pages_repo = 'git@github.com:numba/numba-doc.git'
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Functions
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-def sub_environment():
-    """Return an environment dict for executing subcommands in."""
-    env = os.environ.copy()
-    # Force untranslated messages for regex matching
-    env['LANG'] = 'C'
-    return env
-
-
-def sh(cmd):
-    """Execute command in a subshell, return status code."""
-    return check_call(cmd, shell=True, env=sub_environment())
-
-
-def sh2(cmd):
-    """Execute command in a subshell, return stdout.
-
-    Stderr is unbuffered from the subshell.x"""
-    p = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE, shell=True, env=sub_environment())
-    out = p.communicate()[0]
-    retcode = p.returncode
-    if retcode:
-        raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
-    else:
-        return out.rstrip()
-
-
-def sh3(cmd):
-    """Execute command in a subshell, return stdout, stderr
-
-    If anything appears in stderr, print it out to sys.stderr"""
-    p = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, shell=True,
-              env=sub_environment())
-    out, err = p.communicate()
-    retcode = p.returncode
-    if retcode:
-        raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
-    else:
-        return out.rstrip(), err.rstrip()
-
-
-def init_repo(path):
-    """clone the gh-pages repo if we haven't already."""
-    sh("git clone %s %s"%(pages_repo, path))
-    here = os.getcwd()
-    cd(path)
-    sh('git checkout gh-pages')
-    cd(here)
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Script starts
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    # The tag can be given as a positional argument
-    try:
-        tag = sys.argv[1]
-    except IndexError:
-        try:
-            tag = sh2('git describe --exact-match').decode()
-        except CalledProcessError:
-            tag = "dev"   # Fallback
-            print("Using dev")
-
-    startdir = os.getcwd()
-    if not os.path.exists(pages_dir):
-        # init the repo
-        init_repo(pages_dir)
-    else:
-        # ensure up-to-date before operating
-        cd(pages_dir)
-        sh('git checkout gh-pages')
-        sh('git pull')
-        cd(startdir)
-
-    dest = pjoin(pages_dir, tag)
-
-    # don't `make html` here, because gh-pages already depends on html in Makefile
-    # sh('make html')
-    if tag != 'dev':
-        # only build pdf for non-dev targets
-        #sh2('make pdf')
-        pass
-
-    # This is pretty unforgiving: we unconditionally nuke the destination
-    # directory, and then copy the html tree in there
-    shutil.rmtree(dest, ignore_errors=True)
-    shutil.copytree(html_dir, dest)
-    if tag != 'dev':
-        #shutil.copy(pjoin(pdf_dir, 'ipython.pdf'), pjoin(dest, 'ipython.pdf'))
-        pass
-
-    try:
-        cd(pages_dir)
-        status = sh2('git status | head -1').decode()
-        branch = re.match('\#?\s*On branch (.*)$', status).group(1)
-        if branch != 'gh-pages':
-            e = 'On %r, git branch is %r, MUST be "gh-pages"' % (pages_dir,
-                                                                 branch)
-            raise RuntimeError(e)
-
-        sh('git add -A %s' % tag)
-        sh('git commit -m"Updated doc release: %s"' % tag)
-        print()
-        print('Most recent 3 commits:')
-        sys.stdout.flush()
-        sh('git --no-pager log --oneline HEAD~3..')
-    finally:
-        cd(startdir)
-
-    print()
-    print('Now verify the build in: %r' % dest)
-    print("If everything looks good, 'git push'")
diff --git a/docs/source/developer/contributing.rst b/docs/source/developer/contributing.rst
index af39471a06e..d266cbc688b 100644
--- a/docs/source/developer/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/source/developer/contributing.rst
@@ -475,39 +475,11 @@ build and check the documentation::
    $ make html
    $ open _build/html/index.html
 
-Core developers can upload this documentation to the Numba website
-at https://numba.pydata.org by using the ``gh-pages.py`` script under ``docs``::
-
-   $ python gh-pages.py version  # version can be 'dev' or '0.16' etc
-
-then verify the repository under the ``gh-pages`` directory and use
-``git push``.
-
 Web site homepage
 '''''''''''''''''
 
 The Numba homepage on https://numba.pydata.org can be fetched from here:
-https://github.com/numba/numba-webpage
-
-After pushing documentation to a new version, core developers will want to
-update the website.  Some notable files:
-
-* ``index.rst``       # Update main page
-* ``_templates/sidebar_versions.html``    # Update sidebar links
-* ``doc.rst``         # Update after adding a new version for numba docs
-* ``download.rst``    # Updata after uploading new numba version to pypi
-
-After updating run::
-
-   $ make html
-
-and check out ``_build/html/index.html``.  To push updates to the Web site::
-
-   $ python _scripts/gh-pages.py
-
-then verify the repository under the ``gh-pages`` directory.  Make sure the
-``CNAME`` file is present and contains a single line for ``numba.pydata.org``.
-Finally, use ``git push`` to update the website.
+https://github.com/numba/numba.github.com
 
 
 .. _typeguard: https://typeguard.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
diff --git a/docs/source/developer/repomap.rst b/docs/source/developer/repomap.rst
index f42194b229d..4158be285f2 100644
--- a/docs/source/developer/repomap.rst
+++ b/docs/source/developer/repomap.rst
@@ -51,8 +51,6 @@ Documentation
 - :ghfile:`docs/Makefile` - Used to build Sphinx docs with ``make``
 - :ghfile:`docs/source` - ReST source for Numba documentation
 - :ghfile:`docs/_static/` - Static CSS and image assets for Numba docs
-- :ghfile:`docs/gh-pages.py` - Utility script to update Numba docs (stored
-  as gh-pages)
 - :ghfile:`docs/make.bat` - Not used (remove?)
 - :ghfile:`docs/requirements.txt` - Pip package requirements for building docs
   with Read the Docs.