According to this, Floating IPs can
be instantly remapped, via the DigitalOcean Control Panel or API, to one of your other Droplets in the same datacenter
What prevents Floating IPs from pointing to Droplets in different data centers?
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It is possible to have a floating IP between datacenters. Amazon Elastic IP’s do it within the same region. IBM cloud (formerly softlayer) has the best implementation I have found since there is no regional limitation and no NAT involved. They call it global IP.
Also want to add that there is another company that does it in addition to IBM cloud. Their service looks even better in some ways because it includes the monitoring and automatic failover features.
Because of the inherent workings of Internet routing and the sizes of the blocks allocated to network service providers.
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