GitHub is experiencing user-reported outages, with many developers greeted by a prominent error featuring the platform’s unicorn mascot and the message “No server is currently available to service your request.”
Numerous users across forums and monitoring sites have shared screenshots of the error since early December 11, 2025, particularly in regions like India during peak evening hours.
The issue blocks access to repositories, pushes, and logins, disrupting workflows for millions reliant on GitHub for code collaboration. While not a full global blackout, intermittent failures mimic past disruptions felt by enterprise teams and open-source contributors.
GitHub’s status page at githubstatus.com reports “We are investigating a rise in request failures on several services,” covering core services like Git operations, Actions, and Pages.
Regional pages for the EU, the US, and Australia similarly show green across components. Downdetector logs sparse complaints, mostly from mid-November, with no spike confirming a massive outage.
User Impact and Workarounds
Developers report the error lasting 2-5 minutes per episode, echoing complaints from GitHub community discussions spanning years. Impacts hit hardest during CI/CD pipelines and remote pulls, forcing switches to local mirrors or alternatives like GitLab.
Cybersecurity professionals monitoring threat repos face added delays in vulnerability tracking. Basic fixes include page refreshes, VPN toggles, or cached clones, though persistent issues prompt support tickets.
GitHub has weathered similar server unavailability errors before, often tied to backend overloads rather than cyberattacks. A 2022 thread highlighted weekly recurrences, while November 2025 saw Git operation failures resolved within hours. No root cause is public yet, but monitoring sites like StatusGator track unacknowledged blips in web access and 500 errors.
This episode underscores GitHub’s scale challenges amid 100M+ users, with calls growing for better redundancy. Refreshing or awaiting propagation often resolves it swiftly.
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