How to work with external databases?

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Hello,
I have been frustrated about the limit of storage Wix gives me for storing photos in the media manager(only 500MB). That is why I thought I should host the photos some ware else. Maybe Google photos or instagram or some other similar service . I am new to working with external databases. I do know Wix allows me to create external databases other than Normal databases. I found this article here: https://support.wix.com/en/article/corvid-working-with-external-database-collections

But, I am having truble understanding what I need to do. The article is a bit complex. Could someone help me with it? I am sorry but, the photos I am dealing with are high quality & the size is big(about 3MB~10MB each) and I can’t host much of them(the number of photos with grow every year). This(external database idea) was
@russian-dima 's idea & I couldn’t think of any better alternatives. Please help me!:tired_face:

Thanks

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Did you find here already some hints, how to?

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No. I also tried to upload my pics to my Flickr account and then add them to my database without hosting them on wix and effecting my storage. That didn’t work. The only solution I can think of now is just use external databases. Unless Wix lets me add photos from Flickr without effecting my storage, I think that is best solution. Or do you have a better and easyer solution?

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Perhaps someone else can help ?

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@russian-dima I found an article that shows how to get photos from flickr, but I didn’t quite understand it & I am not sure if it will work as I am working with database. I wish someone could explain JASON to me better. I didn’t quite understand it. Thanks.

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@arthurvalatin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI1CWzNtE-M

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@russian-dima thanks. I think I kind of understand what JASON is. The only problem for me is learning how to use it. Also, do you think it would be possible to import my Flickr photos into a database?