Luckily I was able to just create a new ip address over and over again until I was issued the ip address which was lost.
I need to make changes to my compute engine but do not want to go through that again.
I don’t much feel like rolling the dice, any way to make sure that does not happen? The ip address is and was static and never had a problem with it being lost with a reboot before that.
Thanks,
Hi @jasonwt5 , sorry that you had to go through that experience!
Just to confirm what happened, when you wrote “ip address is and was static”, did you mean that you had previously reserved the address (i.e., as described in https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ip-addresses/reserve-static-external-ip-address)?
Yes it was reserved. It gave me some kind of non descriptive internal site error in the console. When the machine came back up it was with a different ip address that was no longer reserved. I had restarted that machine numerous times with out that internal error and without losing the reserved ip address. It was a really strange problem and really can’t do that to my clients again. Because there is no free support even for site errors we paid for the premium but didn’t really get any answers as to why other then the site was having an issue. I am really not a fan of this support model at all which unfortunately forcing us to look at other options. Thanks for your help.