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We are looking for one infrastructure engineer

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.

What we learned saying no to sync

People keep asking for device sync, and we keep saying no. Here is the honest reason: sync is a different product, with its own failure modes, conflict handling and a desktop agent to maintain. We are four people. A storage box you upload to and download from is a thing we can keep correct. A sync engine is not, yet. So the answer stays no, and we would rather tell you that than ship a half one.

Two northern zones at once

Tallinn and Helsinki both open today. We usually do one zone at a time, but these two share enough groundwork that it made sense to bring them up together. Five zones now.

The Tuesday the uploads crawled

On 29 March uploads in Amsterdam were slow for about half an hour while a storage volume rebalanced. Nothing was lost, but it was slow enough to notice, and a few of you did. The rebalance should have run overnight; a scheduling bug ran it at 07:40. We moved the job back to its window and added an alert if it ever starts during the day again.

Warsaw zone

Warsaw is open. Three zones now, each standing on its own.

2021 in review

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.

A cleanup you did not notice

Folder deletion had been leaving a few orphaned file records behind in rare cases. No files were affected; the records pointed at nothing. We fixed the cause and swept the leftovers tonight. If your file count looked one or two higher than it should have, it is correct now.

Amsterdam is open

Our second zone is live in Amsterdam. It is a separate installation: separate accounts, separate storage, its own entry host. If you want an account there, sign up on the Amsterdam host. We will not move an existing Frankfurt account for you, and we say so on purpose.

Why we hash every file

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 short somewhere between their laptop and us. We could not prove where it broke. Now you can: download, run sha256sum, compare. If the strings match, the bytes are intact. It is a small thing that saves an awkward email.

You can now create a link to a file that expires on its own. Pick 1 hour, 1 day, 7 days or 30 days. We debated longer options and decided against them for now; a link that never dies is a link you forget about.