You can share static html pages without having to worry about maintaining a web server. 
To view the file over http users don’t need to have any dropbox account. Then you'll be able to use it with UpShot to share screenshots.Dropbox can serve files in the Public Folder (and other folders as well) over http. Now go ahead and set up your domains as aliases for your Dropbox accounts. (Getting this set up seems quite complicated, but once done, you wouldn't even need a Public folder any longer). It would then behave like any other of your devices (syncing from Dropbox automatically) and you could simply serve up the desired folder(s) as static files via a regular web server.
You can also install a text-only instance of Dropbox on your server. When a URL is called, the script will actually download that file from your dropbox, then serve it to you from GAE (introducing the obvious double bandwidth and latency, but completely hiding the fact that it is powered by Dropbox in the backend). You can use Google App Engine (or really any other script-enabled server) to proxy your domain to Dropbox. But still, they are certainly options for you to consider. Here are some additional solutions to this problem that I haven't covered here because they were a little too complicated or inefficient for my taste. Because the CNAME record works purely on a domain level, there is no way for us to hide this portion of the URLs with this method. While certainly elegant, one (big) caveat of this solution is that the resulting URLs still contain the portion /u/XYZ/Screenshots. Once the changes have been picked up by the DNS system, you're done! Your screenshots will be available under a URL like. Choose a domain name (such as i.) and point it to dl. Providers should have a help file about how to do this, like this one from Hover. Access your provider's DNS settings menu. A CNAME record is essentially a domain alias, forwarding one domain name to another. If you do have such access, you can create a DNS CNAME record. However, you'll need access to your provider's DNS settings. 
There's another option that doesn't require any changes to your server. This will have the same effect as the Apache code above: redirecting my personal domain to my public Dropbox.
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