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GitHub account suspended? How to keep your code and your deploys running

October 17, 2026

A suspended GitHub account doesn't just hide your repositories. Every deploy that clones from GitHub, every GitHub App integration and every Actions workflow stops with it — while your servers are perfectly healthy. Here's what still works, how to get your code and deploys back the same day, and how to make sure one account can't freeze your hosting again.

What breaks: clones and pushes are refused ("Your account is suspended"), so any host or CI that pulls your code from GitHub can't build a new release. GitHub App integrations tied to the suspended account stop deploying, and Actions don't run. What doesn't break: the sites and apps already running keep serving traffic, and every full clone on a developer's machine is a complete copy of the repository — history, branches and tags included.

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   1 · Find every full copy you have

   Each teammate's local clone is a complete repository. Collect them, and check which one has the newest commits per branch — someone who pushed last week may hold commits nobody else has.
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   2 · Recover what only your host has

   If a deployed version isn't in any clone, your host may still have it: the source it built from, or the release it's running. Ask for it — on Belov Cloud the last deployed tree of every app is on the build node, and we restored one this way byte-for-byte.
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   3 · Push everything to a new home

   Create the repository on another forge and push every branch and tag from the most complete copy: git push new-remote --all, then git push new-remote --tags. Nothing is lost — Git doesn't need GitHub to be a full repository.
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   4 · Point your deploys at it

   Switch each app's repository to the new address and give its deploy key read access. Run one deploy to prove the clone works before the next urgent fix needs it.
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   5 · Re-point every working copy

   Rename the old remote and add the new one as origin in every clone, so the next push goes to the right place: git remote rename origin github, then git remote add origin <new address>.

That's why Belov Cloud includes Belov Git: private Git hosting at git.belov.cloud for every account, at no extra cost. You sign in with your Belov Cloud account, your team's access follows their role, a push deploys your app, and every repository is backed up on your plan's schedule — weekly on Front, daily on Pro and Full-stack, daily with 30 days of history on Scale. GitHub can stay in the picture if you want it; it just can't take your deploys down anymore.

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