Create a reserved IP and assign it to a Droplet to use it as an additional publicly-accessible IP address.
Reserved IP How-Tos
Generated on 6 Oct 2025
DigitalOcean Reserved IPs are publicly-accessible static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Assign and reassign reserved IP addresses to Droplets as needed, or implement an automated failover mechanism with reserved IPs to build a high availability infrastructure.
Getting Started
Reassign reserved IPs to different Droplets within the same datacenter or unassign them entirely.
Bind public services to your Droplet’s anchor IP to make them highly available through a reserved IP.
Reserved IP Management
Delete reserved IPs to permanently remove them from your account.
Manually configure Droplets to enable reserved IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
Send outbound traffic from your Droplet over a reserved IP address.
Bring Your Own IP
Provision a BYOIP prefix to assign your own IP addresses to Droplets.
Deprovision a BYOIP prefix to remove it from your account.
Pause the Advertisement of a BYOIP prefix without deleting it from your team account.
Assign an IP address from your BYOIP prefix to a Droplet.
Reassign or Unassign a BYOIP IP address from a Droplet.