Network

I'm loving that you have Floating IPs now and I'd like to setup reverse lookups (PTR) for them.

When destroying a droplet there's a 99% chance that you will get your IP back. If someone creates a droplet while destroying/creating a new one and steals your IP, it's a pain, even if the chances are <1%. This 1% is too much for some. An IP is an important number, your server might not be able to send emails if the last IP's user was sending spam through it. Software licenses are also tied to IP sometimes. When I want to rebuild a server (or resize: disk size) I want to make sure that I get my IP back. Please figure out a way so that we don't lose our IP (100% guaranteed) when we destroy/recreate a droplet.

This would allow me to scale an app seamlessly in real time, instead of needing to carefully time it against DNS cache latency. After playing around with the new Load Balancers for a bit, It seems like an obvious extension. By the way, I'm really pleased with the feature. It seems very polished.

I will like to see the ability to add more than one floating IPs to 1 Droplet.

A reserved IP seems like an ideal solution for my droplet, but because it includes a mail service it does not seem to be an option.

In lieu of not providing an option to have a load balancer on the private VPC, provide option to point a reserved/floating IP to a droplets private IP as oppose to it's public IP

More than one ip for a VM would be great. A small subnet maybe ..

Very simple. Ipv4 AND ipv6 records with floating ip's

For example, NYC1 -> SFO1. In the event where NYC1 goes down during a Sharknado, the IP would automatically transition to SFO1 or TOR1 or whatever I configure, where a hot-standby droplet takes over.

We'd like to use floating IPs to seamlessly move traffic from one droplet to another when re-deploying services. However, we also aim to support IPv6 and already receive a lot of traffic via v6. As floating IPs are IPv4 only, this severely limits their ability to achieve their purpose in our scenario, forcing us to rely on slowly propagating DNS updates for a growing portion of our incoming traffic. Pleas add floating IPv6 Addresses.