Google Cloud Storage guide

How to configure Google Cloud Storage and use it in MyFile Share

Create a project

Open Google Cloud Console
Click Select a project, then New project
Name your project, for example MyFile Share
Click Create

Set up a billing profile

Google Cloud Storage isn't free; it's billed based on usage, not a static monthly fee. Storage is very cheap - most users' bills will be free or 1-2 cents a month.

Open billing and set up a profile

Create a bucket

Open storage
Click Create bucket
If you plan on using a custom domain, you must first verify the domain using this guide, then name your bucket the domain you're going to use. For example, the https://i.example.com/image.png bucket should be named i.example.com
Storage class should be regional if you plan on using a CDN like Cloudflare, or multi-regional if not
Access control should be Fine-grained
Click Create

[Optional] Configure DNS for a custom domain

If you are going to use your own domain, then you must configure DNS.

For example, if you are using Cloudflare, your bucket name is i.example.com, then these are the DNS settings:

Type: CNAME
Name: i
Value: c.storage.googleapis.com

Configure MyFile Share Google Cloud Storage settings

Open Destinations -> Destination settings
Select the Google Cloud Storage tab
Complete authorization
Fill the bucket name the same as the one you created
For the upload path, it is recommended to use %y/%mo, which creates a folder such as 2017/12
If you are using a custom domain, fill it in. Google Cloud Storage doesn't support custom domain https natively, so unless you are using a TLS proxy such as Cloudflare, you must prepend the http protocol to your domain. So in the custom domain box, you would fill in exactly http://i.example.com
If you are using uniform permissions in your bucket, make sure to untick Set public-read ACL on file, since ACL isn't supported in uniform-permission buckets
Now you can close the destination settings window
In the main window, make sure to select Google Cloud Storage as the destination for the image uploader, text uploader, and file uploader

Now you are ready to use Google Cloud Storage in MyFile Share!