Networking

Secure and control the traffic to your applications with private networking, traffic filtering, and load balancing.

Domains and DNS

Manage DNS for Droplets, DigitalOcean Load Balancers, and non-DigitalOcean resources all in the same place.

Reserved IPs

DigitalOcean Reserved IPs are publicly-accessible static IP address that you can assign to Droplets and instantly remap to other Droplets in the same datacenter.

Load Balancers

Load balancers distribute traffic across pools of Droplets for high availability setups.

Cloud Firewalls

Restrict traffic with network-based, stateful firewalls for Droplets.

IPv6

Compared to IPv4, IPv6 provides a larger address space, increased security, and other benefits. Enable IPv6 on a Droplet to gain access to its 16 configurable IPv6 addresses.

VPC

A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a private network interface for collections of DigitalOcean resources. VPC networks provide a more secure connection between resources because the network is inaccessible from the public internet and other VPC networks.

Latest Updates

6 December 2022

• You can now customize the amount of time a load balancer allows HTTP connections to remain idle before closing it. The maximum amount time you can set is 600 seconds (10 minutes).

  Setting a custom time out length has no effect on HTTPS and HTTP/2 forwarding rules using TLS passthrough.

30 November 2022

• DigitalOcean Load Balancers and DOKS load balancers now support the HTTP/3 protocol.

23 September 2022

• We have added the project_id field to the Reserved IP service’s API. The project_id field allows you to create and associate Reserved IPs with a DigitalOcean Project.

  Use the project_id and region fields in a Create a new Reserved IP request to create a Reserved IP within a project. You can assign the IP address to a Droplet later using a Reserved IP action request.

  We have added the project_id field to the following Reserved IP API responses:

  • Create a new Reserved IP (POST)
  • List Reserved IPs (GET)
  • Retrive an existing Reserved IP (GET)
  • Initiate a Reserved IP action (POST)

For more information, see the full release notes.