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How can I move my droplet to another region?

Posted on August 20, 2014

For I have done setting up my droplet, then I can’t access to it, can I move it to another region?



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In order to move a droplet to a new region, you must take a snapshot of it and then restore that snapshot in the new region. Check out this tutorial for all the details:

How to Migrate DigitalOcean Snapshots Between Regions

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