Velravio now lives at this domain. The old address will redirect for a while and then retire. Everything else is unchanged: same zones, same accounts, same files, same API. We moved the whole blog and changelog across and kept every post's original date, so if you are reading an old entry below, it really is as old as it says. Your bookmarks to zone hosts and /api/v1 keep working.
Trash, export, Sofia, and a security fix we are glad someone found before it mattered. A quieter year by design. The product is close to what we set out to build in 2021; from here the work is mostly keeping it running and opening a zone when a region asks for one.
We opened Milan and Prague and closed Riga. Closing a zone taught us more than opening one: about export, about telling people early, about the quiet cost of running something half-used. We would rather run nine good zones than twelve lonely ones.
The v1 API, the end of v0, Paris and London, and a Riga trial we are still unsure about. One slowdown, no data lost. We also wrote our first real runbook, which is the least glamorous and most useful thing we did all year.
Four new zones (Warsaw, Tallinn, Helsinki, Stockholm), rename-and-move over the API, and one slow Tuesday we wrote up. We grew from two people to four. The thing we are proudest of is dull: the oldest files from May 2021 are still there, still hashing to the same value. That is the job.
One role, part time to start, somewhere in the EU time zones. You would look after the zones: storage, backups, the boring reliability work. If the phrase "boring reliability work" sounds good rather than bad, write to us through the contact form.
Seven months, two zones, a few hundred accounts, and no data lost. That is the whole report. We shipped share links, file hashes and a second zone. We did not ship: a mobile app, team accounts, or anything we could not keep running over the winter break. See you in 2022.
We started Velravio because moving a studio's files around should not mean losing track of where the data physically sits. The first zone is Frankfurt. One account, one city, a short feature list.