Floating IPs | DO Ideas

1,062 Vote

More IPv4 addresses

More than one ip for a VM would be great. A small subnet maybe ..

Created 11 Sep 07:46pm by jack

Floating IPs

196 Future consideration
2 Vote

It works great. Then again I agrees with that one person. Other IP addresses would be great.

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Created 11 Sep 07:41pm by Anonymous

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1 Will not implement
5 Vote

make my ip reserved for me

make my ips reserved for me, even after deleting the droplet, so that i can create new droplet again with same ip address. because i am losing the ip address after deleting the droplet and create new droplet.

Created 11 Sep 07:35pm by alauddin

Floating IPs

2 Will not implement
51 Vote

Anycast

There is no VPS provider that has a decent product supporting anycast. It would be great if you did. This way, I could have servers in multiple locations with the same public IP address. Users are likely to get routed to the closest.

Created 11 Sep 07:08pm by Anonymous

Floating IPs

14 Future consideration
3 Vote

Ability to swap IPs

If DNS is pointing at an IP and I want to swap out the server behind that address, it would be handy to have an IP swap feature, like Linode has. That way I don't have to change DNS entries and wait for them to propagate.

Created 11 Sep 07:04pm by Jason Garber

Floating IPs

1 Will not implement
3 Vote

Configure FailOver IPs between droplets

Failover IPs would be really helpful when migrating some app from one droplet to another without having to modify our DNS zones. It could also be user to switch droplet in case of droplet fail.

Created 11 Sep 07:01pm by Guillaume Moigneu

Floating IPs

2 Will not implement
1,945 Vote

Reserve IP Addresses / Make sure we can keep an IP if we recreate a droplet.

When destroying a droplet there's a 99% chance that you will get your IP back. If someone creates a droplet while destroying/creating a new one and steals your IP, it's a pain, even if the chances are <1%. This 1% is too much for some. An IP ...

Created 11 Sep 05:51pm by Dries Van Damme

Floating IPs

76 Future consideration
79 Vote

Enhance your Floating IP feature with inter-datacenter/inter-region fail-over

For example, NYC1 -> SFO1. In the event where NYC1 goes down during a Sharknado, the IP would automatically transition to SFO1 or TOR1 or whatever I configure, where a hot-standby droplet takes over.

Created 11 Sep 04:39pm by Martin

Floating IPs

7 Future consideration
176 Vote

Allow PTR records for Floating IPs

I'm loving that you have Floating IPs now and I'd like to setup reverse lookups (PTR) for them.

Created 11 Sep 04:39pm by Michael Jensen

Floating IPs

30 Future consideration
319 Vote

Add IPv6 support to Floating IPs

Very simple. Ipv4 AND ipv6 records with floating ip's

Created 11 Sep 04:37pm by Mees Maas

Floating IPs

35 Future consideration