With our server created you can see the IP address you're one point worth mentioning is that this IP
is permanently attached to this droplet.
It cannot be reassigned to another droplet this year.
Digital Ocean introduced a new feature called Floating IPs and this allows us to create an IP and attach
it to any droplet of our choice at any time this feature is very similar to the Amazon Web Services
dynamic IP feature.
If you're using Amazon Web services you can do the same thing.
This feature is extremely useful to have for many purposes for example so you build an application and
at a specific date you create a snapshot of it a snapshot in digital motion is like a disk image that
can easily be reinstalled at any time on any other server.
Now so you develop this application and something goes horribly wrong and you need to revert back to
the snapshot at a previous date.
Typically changing an IP address for your server can be a very big hassle it's something you generally
want to avoid.
So floating IPs make it very simple to deploy a new server load your snapshot and easily assign your
IP to the new server.
Apart from this example there are many other benefits of using floating or transferable IPs and for
this reason let's go ahead and attach a floating IP to this droplet.
Click over here where it says start using floating IPs.
Now you want to click in this menu here.
You want to select the server that you just deployed.
In this case we deployed main server on the right here press the assigned floating IP on just give that
a second or two and you can see that the floating IP was successfully added to the server we just created
so perfect that's all there really is to it.
Now that the IP has been assigned you can administer your server using this floating IP rather than
the permanent IP that we'd seen earlier.
Just as a side note it is always a good practice to set up your floating IP in the beginning.
This gives you the flexibility of transferring the IP at a later date should you need to.