Problems with external images

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For the past few months, I’ve been having problems with an app on Glide (it’s been operational since 2020, and the 2025 migration has already been completed). Most of the images displayed in the app are hosted on an external website accessible to everyone (which we also manage), and the URLs are listed in the Google Sheet that contains the app’s data. An example of one of these image URLs is “https://neurorgs.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/15-info-ok-pago.jpg” (the website is built with WordPress).
Until about 3 or 4 months ago, there were never any issues—these images would load without a problem and, since they’re small, very quickly. But for reasons I don’t understand, these images have stopped displaying. The strange thing is that sometimes they show up and sometimes they don’t.
The website hosting the images is hosted on Rocket.net (in general, everything works very well with this provider), but since I don’t know why this is happening, I’ve reset the cache several times using the controls provided by Rocket.net, and there hasn’t been any significant improvement. Rocket.net uses Cloudflare Enterprise for its cache management.
It seems there’s a caching issue between the Rocket/Cloudflare server and the Glideapps server (which I think is Google Cloud, but I’m not sure…).

Has anyone else experienced a problem like this or something similar? Any suggestions?

One alternative is to move the images to another website (one of the ones we manage), but the problem could happen again.
The next alternative is to host them directly on Glide…

Thank you very much

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Generally speaking, it’s recommended to host images on Glide.

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Yeah, I guess so.

I tried, just to test it out, uploading a couple of images to Glide. There was no problem. The issue is that I need the URL that Glide provides for this image to save it in the production Google Sheet. It wasn’t an easy task… and the URL wasn’t intuitive—it was a string of numbers from the platform (I think it was G Cloud), which Glide uses—and that made it harder for me to assign and, above all, maintain the data using formulas in the spreadsheet itself…

I’m not sure if I used the right approach… ¿…?

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Your approach seems fine. You probably have a good reason why you are using Google Sheets as a data source and not Glide Tables directly.

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probably not…but legacy, portability,…
Anyway I’ve moved images to another external web and in this case there are no problems with caches…so, now, the glide app show correctly the external images
Thanks a lot!!!