Floating IPs

DigitalOcean floating IPs are publicly-accessible static IP addresses that you can assign to Droplets and instantly remap between other Droplets in the same datacenter. Implement a failover mechanism with floating IPs to build a high availability infrastructure.

Quickstart

Just the essentials to go from zero to working in a few minutes.

How-Tos

How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.

Tutorials

Step-by-step instructions for common use cases and third-party software integration.

Reference

API and CLI reference documentation for Floating IPs, including example requests and available parameters.

Concepts

Explanations and definitions of core concepts in Floating IPs.

Details

Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.

Support

Get help with technical support and answers to frequently asked questions.

Latest Updates

Upcoming Changes

• Starting 1 July 2022, some of our pricing is changing. These changes will go into effect for the July bill which customers will receive in the 1 August invoice.

  • We are introducing a new $4 Droplet with 512MB memory, 10GB SSD Disk, 1 vCPU and 500GB of outbound data transfer.

  • We are simplifying pricing for DigitalOcean Kubernetes and some Managed Databases for better accuracy and predictibility.

  • Droplets, Snapshots, Load Balancers, Floating IPs, and Custom Images are increasing in price.

  There is no change to pricing for Spaces, backups, volumes, DigitalOcean Container Registry, or App Platform. There are also no changes to inbound data transfer or bandwidth pricing.

  This is our first major price change in 10 years, and we believe the new model better fits our understanding of our customers and the expanded breadth of our offerings. For a more detailed breakdown of the changes, see our blog post on our new pricing.

31 August 2021

• You can now assign floating IP addresses to Droplets that use custom images.

5 May 2021

• We have updated the Floating IP API responses to better align with our newer API models. The droplet and region fields now use the same response models used in the /v2/droplets and /v2/regions endpoints. Specifically:

  • The private_networking feature is now displayed under the features field under droplet instead of the features field under region.
  • The vpc_uuid field now populates with the correct values.
  • The Droplet’s type displays base when the Droplet uses a base image (i.e. Ubuntu, CentOS).
  • The Droplet’s networks field now includes private and floating IP addresses, if applicable.

15 May 2020

• Unassigned floating IP charges will now appear on invoices. The first charge will appear on July 2020 invoices for all floating IPs that were not assigned to Droplets during the month of June.

For more information, see all Floating IPs release notes.