Reserve IP Addresses / Make sure we can keep an IP if we recreate a droplet.
D
Dries Van Damme
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 is an important number, your server might not be able to send emails if the last IP's user was sending spam through it.
Software licenses are also tied to IP sometimes.
When I want to rebuild a server (or resize: disk size) I want to make sure that I get my IP back.
Please figure out a way so that we don't lose our IP (100% guaranteed) when we destroy/recreate a droplet.
W
Whitney Jutzin
Merged in a post:
Make it possible to reserve the IP address that was allocated for Droplet.
M
Mike
Please make it possible to reserve the IP address that was allocated for Droplet.
PROBLEM:
I have a droplet, there are many services on it, and all services are tied to the IP address of the droplet.
I need a more powerful droplet, but if I order another droplet, it will have a different IP address, and all my services will stop working (API).
Unfortunately, you do not have the opportunity to reserve an existing IP address from a droplet in order to create a new droplet and assign it an IP address from the old droplet.
This feature is implemented in Vultr.com
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