technology is a super stagnant industry and the stability and lack of change make it really attractive. almost nobody builds a business in tech because the barriers to entry are so massive. I don’t blame them for not having an answer to this question, as the likelihood of somebody rising above the insurmountable odds to create a business in the tech industry would be crazy and it historically would be wild for that business to change hands because people in the 21st century (unlike their ancestors) work the same career their whole life.

to be clear, that is sarcasm, and I FUCKING LOVE you guys at Digital Ocean, but for fucks sakes how did you not anticipate this, it is hardly an edgecase. I AWS screwed me over (a client insisted on it) and I have 3 hours to deploy a build on my personal account rolling the dice that I won’t be able to deliver & might have to repeat the work.

I could always just take a disk image and transfer it, but I am short on time so I figure I would deploy from scratch rather than go through the process of dryhumping a cactus which is moving images around.

I love you guys, you have been generous to me, but for the next developer who has 10 hours of sleep cumulatively over the last 3 nights who ends up here please provide a way to allow transfer and answer the question:

What will happen to the current public IP of the droplet. That will be also transferred?

having a complex deploy strategy and migrating it would be annoying, but if I had to do it and found out all the IPs were the same after, i’d probably weep.