feat(docs): external-provider

[danforbes]

Add documentation for external providers.

Closes #7115

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[jdevcs]

In some next PR when RPC providers package is added in libdocs, I think its link and one line intro also needs to be in https://docs.web3js.org/#packages--plugins section.

[jdevcs]

this PR looks good, Thanks @danforbes

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[danforbes]

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