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With our server created you can see the IP address you're one point worth mentioning is that this IP

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is permanently attached to this droplet.

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It cannot be reassigned to another droplet this year.

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Digital Ocean introduced a new feature called Floating IPs and this allows us to create an IP and attach

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it to any droplet of our choice at any time this feature is very similar to the Amazon Web Services

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dynamic IP feature.

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If you're using Amazon Web services you can do the same thing.

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This feature is extremely useful to have for many purposes for example so you build an application and

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at a specific date you create a snapshot of it a snapshot in digital motion is like a disk image that

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can easily be reinstalled at any time on any other server.

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Now so you develop this application and something goes horribly wrong and you need to revert back to

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the snapshot at a previous date.

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Typically changing an IP address for your server can be a very big hassle it's something you generally

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want to avoid.

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So floating IPs make it very simple to deploy a new server load your snapshot and easily assign your

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IP to the new server.

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Apart from this example there are many other benefits of using floating or transferable IPs and for

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this reason let's go ahead and attach a floating IP to this droplet.

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Click over here where it says start using floating IPs.

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Now you want to click in this menu here.

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You want to select the server that you just deployed.

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In this case we deployed main server on the right here press the assigned floating IP on just give that

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a second or two and you can see that the floating IP was successfully added to the server we just created

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so perfect that's all there really is to it.

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Now that the IP has been assigned you can administer your server using this floating IP rather than

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the permanent IP that we'd seen earlier.

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Just as a side note it is always a good practice to set up your floating IP in the beginning.

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This gives you the flexibility of transferring the IP at a later date should you need to.