Storage freedom, explained

Every gallery platform has to answer the same question eventually: who pays for the terabytes of full-resolution RAWs and exports photographers accumulate, and what happens when a photographer outgrows whatever storage came bundled with their plan? Most answer it by locking you into their storage, at their price, with no way out. Shotter answers it differently: you get a real choice.

Option one: managed storage

Every plan includes a storage allowance on Shotter's own infrastructure. If you go over it, extra storage is billed per GB at your plan's overage rate — not a forced upgrade to the next tier just because you crossed a line. You get a warning email at 80% and again at 100% of your allowance, so overage billing is never a surprise on your invoice.

Option two: bring your own bucket

If you're already paying for S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, or Wasabi — plenty of working photographers are, often for other parts of their workflow — Shotter can point at that bucket instead of hosting your media itself. The Bring your own storage plan is €29/mo flat: no storage allowance to track, no overage, ever. Your storage credentials are encrypted at rest and used only to access your bucket on your behalf.

Why this actually matters for heavy galleries

Event photography produces a lot of data fast — a single wedding or festival shoot can run into tens of gigabytes of full-resolution exports before you even count video. A photographer shooting regularly hits a storage ceiling that a portrait photographer might never see. Being forced onto whatever storage tier a platform sells you, at whatever price they set, is a real cost driver once your volume grows. Being able to bring storage you already trust and already pay for removes that ceiling entirely, instead of just raising it.