DigitalOcean floating IPs can be boon when it comes to avoiding reducing downtime. Find out how.

At Bobcares, we offer solutions for every query, big and small, as a part of our DigitalOcean Support.

Let’s take a look at how our DIgitalOcean Support Team is ready to help customers with DigitalOcean floating IP.

What is DigitalOcean floating IP?

DigitalOcean floating IPs can be described as static IP addresses that are publicly accessible. Furthermore, we can assign these IP addresses to Droplets in addition to remapping between different droplets within the same data center. Our DO Support Techs recommend implementing a fail-over mechanism via floating IPs in order to build a high availability structure.

How DO floating IP works

As single points of failure can cause an application to fail, floating IPs help customers connect an IP address with another Droplet with minimal downtime. In other words, a standby Droplet is ready to receive the production traffic at any moment in case of an issue. Additionally, floating IPs come in handy during application upgrades.

Moreover, floating IPs are free of charge. However, if we reserve an address without assigning it to a droplet, we will be charged.

Features:  

Let’s take a look at some of the features offered by DigitalOcean floating IPs:

• It redirects network traffic between Droplets of the same data center.
• We can use floating IPs to put together server infrastructure devoid of single failure points.
• It is useful during application upgrades.

Although, there are a few limitations when it comes to using DigitalOcean floating IPs:

• We can reserve up to only three floating IPs per account. However, we can request more via the control panel if we require more.
• We cannot assign a floating Ip to more than one Droplet at a time.
• They do not support PTR records.
• Floating IPs do not support SMTP traffic.

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Conclusion

To sum up, our skilled DigitalOcean Support Engineers at Bobcares took us through the ins and outs of DigitalOcean floating IPs.