Regional file storage and sharing for small studios, workshops and offices in Europe. Pick a zone; your files stay in it.https://www.velravio.com/ Velravioen Mon, 09 Nov 2026 16:08:26 -0000 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 16:08:26 -0000 1440 MkDocs RSS plugin - v1.17.4 None https://www.velravio.com/ Field notes <h1>What the status page measures</h1> <p>We rebuilt the status page around real measurements from each zone: response time and free space, read live when you open it...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2026/11/what-the-status-page-measures/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2026/11/what-the-status-page-measures/ Operations <h1>Slow file listing after a cache restart</h1> <p>On 3 November the workspace was slow to list files for about twenty minutes after a cache server restarted cold. T...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2026/10/slow-file-listing-after-a-cache-restart/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2026/10/slow-file-listing-after-a-cache-restart/ Company <h1>We have moved to a new address</h1> <p>Velravio now lives at this domain. The old address will redirect for a while and then retire. Everything else is unchanged:...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2026/10/we-have-moved-to-a-new-address/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2026/10/we-have-moved-to-a-new-address/ Field notes <h1>Five years of the same file</h1> <p>The oldest file still in Frankfurt was uploaded on 11 May 2021. We downloaded it this week and its SHA-256 is exactly what it ...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2026/07/five-years-of-the-same-file/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2026/07/five-years-of-the-same-file/ Release <h1>Access codes on share links</h1> <p>A share link can now carry an access code. The person has to type it before the download starts, and we store the code only as...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2026/05/access-codes-on-share-links/ Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2026/05/access-codes-on-share-links/ Zones <h1>Zurich zone</h1> <p>Zurich is open. Twelve zones. Switzerland came up often enough in the contact form that it was time.</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2026/03/zurich-zone/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2026/03/zurich-zone/ Company <h1>2025 in review</h1> <p>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 wh...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2025/12/2025-in-review/ Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2025/12/2025-in-review/ Operations <h1>Unicode file names in the export manifest</h1> <p>A short fix: file names with accented or non-Latin characters were being written to the export manifest in a nor...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2025/10/unicode-file-names-in-the-export-manifest/ Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2025/10/unicode-file-names-in-the-export-manifest/ Security <h1>Advisory: share token length increased</h1> <p>A security researcher pointed out that our share tokens, while random, were shorter than they needed to be. We leng...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2025/09/advisory-share-token-length-increased/ Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2025/09/advisory-share-token-length-increased/ Field notes <h1>On not inventing numbers</h1> <p>We get asked for a customer count for the website. We will not put one up. Not because it is embarrassing, but because the moment...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2025/06/on-not-inventing-numbers/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2025/06/on-not-inventing-numbers/ Zones <h1>Sofia zone</h1> <p>Sofia is open. Ten zones.</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2025/04/sofia-zone/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2025/04/sofia-zone/ Release <h1>Trash, and then account export</h1> <p>Two things studios kept asking for. Deleted files now sit in a trash for seven days before they are really gone. And you ca...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2025/02/trash-and-then-account-export/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2025/02/trash-and-then-account-export/ Company <h1>2024 in review</h1> <p>We opened Milan and Prague and closed Riga. Closing a zone taught us more than opening one: about export, about telling people early, about...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/12/2024-in-review/ Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/12/2024-in-review/ Operations <h1>Storage firmware, overnight</h1> <p>Routine firmware updates on the storage volumes ran overnight across zones. Uploads were briefly slower in a couple of zones d...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/11/storage-firmware-overnight/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/11/storage-firmware-overnight/ Zones <h1>Prague zone</h1> <p>Prague is open. We are back to a steady eight-then-nine count after retiring Riga.</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/10/prague-zone/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/10/prague-zone/ Zones <h1>Closing the Riga zone</h1> <p>We are closing the Riga trial. It never found enough steady use to justify a full zone, and a near-empty zone is harder to keep heal...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/08/closing-the-riga-zone/ Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/08/closing-the-riga-zone/ Field notes <h1>Notes from a storage meetup</h1> <p>One of us spent two days at a small infrastructure meetup. The useful takeaway was not a talk but a hallway conversation about...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/05/notes-from-a-storage-meetup/ Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/05/notes-from-a-storage-meetup/ Operations <h1>Eighteen minutes of broken share pages</h1> <p>On 2 October last year a bad release made share pages return errors for eighteen minutes. We never wrote it up prop...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/03/eighteen-minutes-of-broken-share-pages/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/03/eighteen-minutes-of-broken-share-pages/ Zones <h1>Milan zone</h1> <p>Milan is open.</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/02/milan-zone/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2024/02/milan-zone/ Company <h1>2023 in review</h1> <p>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 firs...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/12/2023-in-review/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/12/2023-in-review/ Field notes <h1>A boring week of key rotation</h1> <p>We rotated the internal signing keys across every zone this week. Nothing you can see changed, which is the point. Writing i...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/10/a-boring-week-of-key-rotation/ Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/10/a-boring-week-of-key-rotation/ Zones <h1>London zone</h1> <p>London is open. Eight active zones, plus the Riga trial.</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/09/london-zone/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/09/london-zone/ Field notes <h1>Why export writes a manifest</h1> <p>When you export an account you get the files and a <code>manifest.csv</code>. The manifest is there for one reason: so you can prove, a ...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/08/why-export-writes-a-manifest/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/08/why-export-writes-a-manifest/ Release <h1>The v0 API is switched off</h1> <p>As announced in April, <code>/api/v0</code> stopped serving today. It now returns <code>410 Gone</code> with a short note pointing at <code>/api/v1</code>. If a...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/06/the-v0-api-is-switched-off/ Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/06/the-v0-api-is-switched-off/ Zones <h1>Riga zone (trial)</h1> <p>We are trying a zone in Riga. Calling it a trial because we are not sure of the demand there; if it does not find enough use we will clo...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/05/riga-zone-trial/ Tue, 16 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/05/riga-zone-trial/ Release <h1>The v1 API is here; v0 is now deprecated</h1> <p>We rewrote the API and the new one lives under <code>/api/v1</code>. It has a single error envelope, proper status codes and...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/04/the-v1-api-is-here-v0-is-now-deprecated/ Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/04/the-v1-api-is-here-v0-is-now-deprecated/ Zones <h1>Paris zone, and a note on growth</h1> <p>Paris is open. Seven zones. We are slowing the pace on purpose: each zone is a real place we have to keep running for yea...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/03/paris-zone-and-a-note-on-growth/ Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/03/paris-zone-and-a-note-on-growth/ Operations <h1>Planned: account database upgrade</h1> <p>On 4 March, 02:00-03:00 UTC, we will upgrade the account database in every zone. Sign-in will blink out for a few minute...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/02/planned-account-database-upgrade/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2023/02/planned-account-database-upgrade/ Company <h1>2022 in review</h1> <p>Four new zones (Warsaw, Tallinn, Helsinki, Stockholm), rename-and-move over the API, and one slow Tuesday we wrote up. We grew from two peo...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/12/2022-in-review/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/12/2022-in-review/ Zones <h1>Stockholm zone</h1> <p>Stockholm is live. Six zones.</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/11/stockholm-zone/ Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/11/stockholm-zone/ Company <h1>We are looking for one infrastructure engineer</h1> <p>One role, part time to start, somewhere in the EU time zones. You would look after the zones: storage, back...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/09/we-are-looking-for-one-infrastructure-engineer/ Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/09/we-are-looking-for-one-infrastructure-engineer/ Field notes <h1>What we learned saying no to sync</h1> <p>People keep asking for device sync, and we keep saying no. Here is the honest reason: sync is a different product, with ...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/07/what-we-learned-saying-no-to-sync/ Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/07/what-we-learned-saying-no-to-sync/ Zones <h1>Two northern zones at once</h1> <p>Tallinn and Helsinki both open today. We usually do one zone at a time, but these two share enough groundwork that it made sens...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/06/two-northern-zones-at-once/ Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/06/two-northern-zones-at-once/ Operations <h1>The Tuesday the uploads crawled</h1> <p>On 29 March uploads in Amsterdam were slow for about half an hour while a storage volume rebalanced. Nothing was lost, but...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/04/the-tuesday-the-uploads-crawled/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/04/the-tuesday-the-uploads-crawled/ Release <h1>Rename and move, over the API</h1> <p><code>PATCH /api/v0/files/{id}</code> now takes a new name or folder. Small, overdue, done.</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/02/rename-and-move-over-the-api/ Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/02/rename-and-move-over-the-api/ Zones <h1>Warsaw zone</h1> <p>Warsaw is open. Three zones now, each standing on its own.</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/01/warsaw-zone/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2022/01/warsaw-zone/ Company <h1>2021 in review</h1> <p>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 seco...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2021/12/2021-in-review/ Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2021/12/2021-in-review/ Operations <h1>A cleanup you did not notice</h1> <p>Folder deletion had been leaving a few orphaned file records behind in rare cases. No files were affected; the records pointe...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2021/11/a-cleanup-you-did-not-notice/ Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2021/11/a-cleanup-you-did-not-notice/ Zones <h1>Amsterdam is open</h1> <p>Our second zone is live in Amsterdam. It is a separate installation: separate accounts, separate storage, its own entry host. If you wan...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2021/09/amsterdam-is-open/ Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2021/09/amsterdam-is-open/ Field notes <h1>Why we hash every file</h1> <p>From today each stored file gets a SHA-256, shown on the file card. A customer last month sent us a zip that arrived two bytes shor...</p> https://www.velravio.com/blog/2021/08/why-we-hash-every-file/ Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Velraviohttps://www.velravio.com/blog/2021/08/why-we-hash-every-file/