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Destroying your droplet and re-creating at a later date, you would be provided with a different IP address.
You could always run the following command to replace all references to you old IP with your new one though:
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<br>find . -type f -name '*.*' -exec sed -i 's|OLD-IP|NEW-IP|g' {} \;
<br>(Replacing OLD-IP and NEW-IP, respectively, to get things back up and going.)
There’s a high chance you’ll get the same IP address if you create it immediately after the old droplet is destroyed, though.
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