Purchase Additional IP Addresses

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How do I purchase additional IP addresses. I am setting up a cPanel/WHM and need to have additional IP addresses.

dknipe · Answer

So everyone else manages additional IP. Linode offer $1 per month!

Even tho CPanel enable shared IP, it is not advised main host shares, so really want minimum 2. Seperate droplets for DNSonly solves the nameserver issue, but not server management.

Please offer viable solution DO. Enough folk are asking, without a clear response other than ‘we don’t do it’.

alexdo · Answer

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

brett323876 · Answer

Why do so many of you insist on using a second IP on the same machine for your secondary DNS? This is a complete waste of a good IP.

There are a few limited country TLDs that have require multiple IPs or multiple subnets for your DNS servers, but if you’re just going to add an IP to the same machine, just point both to the same IP. You’re not getting any additional redundancy, and you’re just using up another IP.

That being said, I think it’s a huge limitation (for -legitimate- purposes) that Digital Ocean doesn’t allow multiple IPs-per-droplet.

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