Using Google Cloud Storage for Screenshots

For a while, I used vgy.me for hosting my screenshots, and while I didn’t have any issues with it until recently. It never really occurred to me that I should host my own. A few days ago I started having 404 and 500 errors with vgy.me so I said that’s enough and I began research on the top cloud providers (Google, AWS, and Azure). I settled on Google Cloud Platform hence this post.

You don’t have to use this just for screenshots, but any type of files. After all, it is a storage platform, but we’re just using it for screenshots in this post.

Setting up Your Storage Bucket

With GCP you pay for what you use. 1GB storage is $0.026 per GB-month etc. Read more on the pricing here.