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You are usually better off to host a database’s storage locally on the Droplet itself. This is because you do not want to introduce additional latency, or a potential networking issue between your database and where it writes information.
The recommended solution would be to upgrade your droplet to a larger one so that you have more disk space which is still local. Block storage wouldn’t be the recommended solution, especially for heavily utilized databases.
If the database is used infrequently you can attach a volume, but again it is recommended that you move the entire database to the new volume, you can’t “append” the volume to your local storage.
Alternatively you can also moved the database to our managed DB solution as well.