I'm trying to find a way to connect to it using the same droplet on digitalocean. Maybe the problem is that I installed mysql on the droplet to be able to run phpmyadmin. For example, when I type the following command "mysql -u root -p" I can login with nothing as a password and then at the mysql prompt I can type "show databases;" and the only databases shown are information_schema, mysql, and performance_schema, and there is no reference to the steem mysql database. When I vi to /etc/my.cnf I see that the current data directory is "/var/lib/mysql" but I think the data your script generated is found in "/mnt/volume-tor1-01/volumes". I'll try to play around with it more later tonight. My goal is to be able to connect to the steem mysql data with php because that is the language I am most familiar with.