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Powered-off droplets are still charged. Your droplet’s disk, RAM, and IP address are all reserved while the droplet is off. If you would like to save a droplet for future use, take a snapshot of it and then destroy it. You will be able to create a new droplet from the snapshot image anytime to bring it back online.
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