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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions content/billing/overview.md
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Expand Up @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ no per-deployment monthly minimum. The metered quantities are:
| **Disk** | GiB-hours | Allocated (the size you provisioned) |
| **Registry storage** | GiB-hours | Actual stored size |
| **Static site storage** | GiB-months | Actual stored size of your published [static site](/deployments/static-sites/) releases |
| **Dropbox storage** | GiB-months | Actual stored size of your project's [Dropbox](/storage/dropbox/) files |
| **Egress** | GiB transferred out | Actual bytes leaving the container (destination isn't tracked) |
| **External route egress** | GiB transferred out | Actual bytes served from the edge for an [external HTTP route](/networking/routes/#external-server-http) |

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17 changes: 11 additions & 6 deletions content/storage/dropbox.md
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Expand Up @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: 'Dropbox'
linkTitle: 'Dropbox'
weight: 2
description: 'Temporary file storage — upload a file, get a short-lived public download URL.'
lead: 'Dropbox is temporary file storage for a project. Upload a file and you get back a public, signed download URL that expires on its own — a day by default, up to seven. Good for handing someone a build artifact, sharing a generated report, or staging an archive to publish — without standing up a bucket or minting long-lived credentials.'
lead: 'Dropbox is temporary file storage for a project. Upload a file and you get back a public, signed download URL that expires on its own — a day by default, up to a year. Good for handing someone a build artifact, sharing a generated report, or staging an archive to publish — without standing up a bucket or minting long-lived credentials.'
---

## When to reach for it
Expand All @@ -18,10 +18,15 @@ to *get out* of the platform briefly and then forget about.
- **Stage a static-site archive** — upload a `.tar.gz`, then point
[static-site publishing](/deployments/static-sites/) at the returned URL.

Every file carries a **TTL of 1–7 days** (default 1). Once it expires the link
Every file carries a **TTL of 1–365 days** (default 1). Once it expires the link
stops working and the bytes are reclaimed — there's no manual delete and no way
to extend a TTL. If you need a file to live longer, re-upload it.

Stored files are billed as `dropbox_storage` — a daily snapshot of the bytes you
hold, metered in GiB-months at the same rate as [SSD Disk](/billing/overview/#how-pricing-works),
with no free tier. Egress (bytes downloaded) is billed separately as
`dropbox_egress`.

The download URL is signed: a tampered or made-up token is rejected before it
ever touches storage, so a link only works if it came from a real upload. But
the URL itself is the only credential — anyone who has it can download the file
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| Query param | | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `project` | required | Project sid (the stable slug, e.g. `acme`) — or the numeric project ID — the upload is authorized and billed against |
| `ttl` | optional | Lifetime in days, 1–7 (default 1) |
| `ttl` | optional | Lifetime in days, 1–365 (default 1) |
| `filename` | optional | Name recorded in `Content-Disposition` for the download |

The same values can be passed as `param-project` / `param-ttl` / `param-filename`
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -91,7 +96,7 @@ res, err := c.DropboxUpload(ctx, &client.DropboxUploadOptions{
Project: "acme",
Content: content, // the file bytes
Filename: "build.tar.gz", // optional
TTLDays: 3, // 1–7, default 1
TTLDays: 3, // 1–365, default 1
})
// res.DownloadURL, res.ExpiresAt, res.Size
```
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| Body field | | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `project` | required | Project sid (or numeric ID) the upload is authorized and billed against |
| `ttl` | optional | Download lifetime in days, 1–7 (default 1); the clock starts when the file is `PUT` |
| `ttl` | optional | Download lifetime in days, 1–365 (default 1); the clock starts when the file is `PUT` |
| `filename` | optional | Name recorded in `Content-Disposition` for the download |
| `contentType` | optional | If set, the `PUT` must send this exact `Content-Type` |
| `minSize` / `maxSize` | optional | Byte bounds enforced on the `PUT` — min floors at 1 (empty uploads are refused), max clamps to the service cap (default 5 GiB) |
Expand All @@ -164,7 +169,7 @@ res, err := c.DropboxCreateUploadURL(ctx, &client.DropboxCreateUploadURLOptions{
Filename: "build.tar.gz", // optional
ContentType: "application/gzip", // optional, enforced on the PUT
MaxSize: 100 << 20, // optional byte cap
TTLDays: 3, // 1–7, default 1
TTLDays: 3, // 1–365, default 1
Expires: 900, // upload-URL lifetime in seconds
})
// res.UploadURL (hand off), res.DownloadURL (where it lands), res.UploadExpiresAt
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