I would like to request the ability to increase only the disk size of a droplet, without having to scale up CPU and RAM.

In my case, I run a MySQL cluster that’s highly sensitive to storage latency. I originally used block storage volumes (which I could expand easily), but I experienced latency issues and was advised by the DigitalOcean team to migrate to Premium Intel droplets with local disks to improve performance — and that worked perfectly.

Now, however, I’m running out of disk space again, and the only way to expand it is by upgrading to a higher droplet tier that doubles CPU and RAM, which I don’t need.

This limitation creates unnecessary cost and resource waste for workloads that are I/O-bound, not CPU- or RAM-bound.

Having the option to expand local disk independently (even as a paid add-on or tiered option) would be extremely valuable for database-heavy applications like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Elasticsearch clusters.

Thank you for considering this — it would make DigitalOcean much more flexible for production workloads that depend on local storage performance.