Question
In production, can I just use my droplets IP instead of assigning a domain name?
- Posted on January 11, 2016
- LAMP StackUbuntu
Asked by osirisr
I’m creating a backend API for a mobile app. Instead of mydomain.com/api … is it okay and technically viable, for example, to use 415.21.23.235/api instead? Are there any security risks, downtime, disadvantages, etc?
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That’s technically fine. One disadvantage / risk that I can think of is in the event that you wanted to move to different VPS (new droplet or different host all together). This would issue a new IP address making your original URL invalid so anyone using your API would have to make an update. With the domain this wouldn’t be an issue since the IP change would happen at the DNS level.