For #2 vote for this https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/4914144-make-sure-we-can-keep-an-ip-if-we-recreate-a-dropl https:

For #2 vote for this https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/4914144-make-sure-we-can-keep-an-ip-if-we-recreate-a-dropl https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea... and https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/2993170-movable-ip-from-vm-to-vm-elastic-ip https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea... I don't think the time behind the scenes will ever be zero so I'd rather 100% be guaranteed not to lose my IP address. Spin up a new VM and assign prod-new the IP of prod-old similar to how you might do it with AWS Elastic IP