Curious about where you would put your DO data. A cheap VPS from DO doesn't come with much storage. You can either buy more storage for $$ or use DO Spaces for fewer $, but do Spaces talk to PostgresQL? I apologize for my ignorance; I'm just beginning to explore this stuff.
Block storage is $.10/GB; Spaces is $.02/GB. I was hoping there was a glue layer that would allow PostgresQL to use Spaces, but such a thing might not exist or be performant enough to be worth building.
Spaces is for object storage, stuff like videos, images, documents, etc. You can store references(links) to this objects in postgres if you want (very common thing to do).
Block storage is for adding volumes to your droplets (like adding a second hard drive to a computer). One advantage is that they are separated from your droplet and replicated, if your droplet disappears or dies, you can reattach the volume to another droplet. So one common use is to place the data dir of PG for example, in the external volume. You should still have proper backups. DO also has a managed PG service.
No need to apologize. I have very little data so the 50GB droplet is enough. But in my use case, the data is expendable. The data had no value in development environment. You probably shouldn't do in production what I'm doing.
