By bjmosk
Several services that I use require that I whitelist my IP address. If I need to destroy the whitelisted Droplet, I am under the impression that I may lose the IP. Is there any way to reserve the IP address and assign it to a new Droplet? (Similar to Elastic IPs in AWS)
Thanks, Brian
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You can use a service as DynDNS to get a domain for your droplet. If you then install ddclient on that droplet, the domain will always point to the correct IP, even if it changes after you e.g. restore the droplet from a snapshot.
Youtube tutorial of how to whitelist IP address with Digital Ocean’s firewall: https://snipp.ly/l/OjLdg
Just for the record, I’ve destroyed/recreated one of my droplets about half a dozen times now, and each time I’ve received the same IP address. <br> <br>D.O. is great like that. :) <br> <br>I used the same server name and region each time, which might be important, and I recreated the droplet within about 2 minutes of destroying the old one, every time. I can pretty much guarantee that timing is an important factor.
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