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Purchase Additional IP Addresses
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×But I bet you’ll sell us another droplet with one of those limited IP addresses… ;)
wouldn’t an IP cost about the same as one of the 5$ droplets? from a business stand point it it even makes sense to get the droplet and use the 20GB of extra storage you’ll get :)
Unfortunately, it doesn’t, because of the added maintenance burden of having an additional virtual server when all you want is another IP address for an SSL website. :(
Hardly good news and your prediction is wrong… IP’s are still “plentiful” and cheap unlike predictions ARIN, Ripe, APNIC having been working due diligently to free up ranges.
Why Can’t you simply justify the right for additional IP Addresses charge a premium and so on.
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There are many reasons why same droplet may need second IP.
One of them is installation of stun servers like the following.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29280253-How-to-install-and-configure-STUN-server-
http://www.rtcquickstart.org/ICE-STUN-TURN-server-installation
Hello,
Each new droplet comes with a dedicated IP address. The droplet can have one IPv4 address, but we can also issue up to 16 IPv6 addresses per droplet. You can read more about IPv6 here: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/ipv6/
Another thing to mention is the usage of a Floating IPs.
A Floating IP is an IP address that can be instantly moved from one Droplet to another Droplet in the same datacenter.
Part of a highly available infrastructure is being able to immediately point an IP address to a redundant server. This is now possible with the addition of Floating IPs.
Floating IPs are free to use. However, due to the shortage of IPv4 addresses available, if you reserve an address but don’t assign it to a Droplet, we charge $0.006 per hour for each unassigned, reserved IP. (You can relinquish unused IPs from the control panel.) To keep billing simple, you will not be charged unless you accrue $1 or more.
Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Alex
Hello, all
Another thing to mention is the usage of a Floating IPs.
A Floating IP is an IP address that can be instantly moved from one Droplet to another Droplet in the same datacenter.
Part of a highly available infrastructure is being able to immediately point an IP address to a redundant server. This is now possible with the addition of Floating IPs.
Floating IPs are free to use. However, due to the shortage of IPv4 addresses available, if you reserve an address but don’t assign it to a Droplet, we charge $0.006 per hour for each unassigned, reserved IP. (You can relinquish unused IPs from the control panel.) To keep billing simple, you will not be charged unless you accrue $1 or more.
Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Alex