How to Create Reserved IPs
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 17 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
How to Reassign or Unassign Reserved IPs
Reassign reserved IPs to different Droplets within the same datacenter or unassign them entirely.
How to Find Information about Droplet Anchor IPs
Bind public services to your Droplet’s anchor IP to make them highly available through a reserved IP.
Reserved IP Management
How to Delete Reserved IPs
Delete reserved IPs to permanently remove them from your account.
How to Manually Enable Reserved IPs
Manually configure Droplets to enable reserved IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
How to Send Outbound Traffic Over a Reserved IP
Send outbound traffic from your Droplet over a reserved IP address.
Bring Your Own IP
How to Provision a BYOIP Prefix
Provision a BYOIP prefix to assign your own IP addresses to Droplets.
How to Deprovision a BYOIP Prefix
Deprovision a BYOIP prefix to remove it from your account.
How to Pause the Advertisement of a BYOIP Prefix
Pause the Advertisement of a BYOIP prefix without deleting it from your team account.
How to Assign BYOIP IPs
Assign an IP address from your BYOIP prefix to a Droplet.
How to Reassign or Unassign BYOIP IPs
Reassign or Unassign a BYOIP IP address from a Droplet.