Reserve an IP

Reserving an IP gives your account a public IPv4 address to keep. You can take a fresh address from E2E’s pool, or reserve the public IP a resource already has, so that the address stays yours after the resource is deleted.

Before you begin

• A MyAccount account with credit. A reserved IP is billed monthly for as long as you hold it; the reserve popup shows the price before you confirm.
• Room under your limit: 10 reserved IPs by default, across all projects. At the limit, the reserve buttons open the Reserve IP Limit Exceeded popup instead; see Request a higher reserved IP limit.

Reserve a new IP from the pool

Take this path when you want a new address to attach wherever you need it.

1. Open Network > Reserve IP and click Reserve New IP.
2. Keep Reserve IP from the default network selected.
3. Click Reserve a new IP.

The address appears in the list with the status Available, ready to attach.

Reserve the public IP a resource already has

Take this path when people already reach a resource on its address and you want to keep that address, for example before you replace the node.

1. Open Network > Reserve IP and click Reserve Resource IP.
2. Select the product, Node or, in Delhi, Load Balancer, then pick the resource. You can pick any resource with a public IP that is not reserved yet; the others show in the list, greyed out.
3. Click Reserve IP.

The address appears in the list with the status Unavailable, because the resource is still using it. The resource keeps running on the address as before. When you later delete the resource, the address turns Available and stays in your account.

Put the address to use

The address is yours until you delete it. Attach it to a node or a firewall as an Add-on IP, make it a node’s primary public IP, or use it as a Floating IP shared by several nodes.