How to Get a Dedicated Public IP for Your VPS Without Buying a New Server

Not every VPS comes with a public IP attached. Budget providers, certain regions, and containers/LXC-based plans often ship with only a private, internal address — fine for some workloads, a dead end if you need to be reachable from the internet with a real, dedicated IP.

Buying a whole new VPS isn't the only option

If your existing VPS is otherwise exactly what you need — right specs, right location, already configured — replacing it just to get a public IP is wasteful. A Dedicated IP – Full Forwarding plan gives your existing VPS a real, dedicated public IPv4 address routed entirely to it, for ₹499/month.

How it works

1. Order the Dedicated IP plan
2. Connect your existing VPS with the two-command setup (see connecting your server)
3. Every port and protocol on the new dedicated IP now routes straight to your VPS

Your VPS keeps its original private/internal IP for whatever it was already using it for — the dedicated IP is purely additional.

When this makes more sense than switching providers

• Your current VPS is already configured exactly how you want it
• You need the dedicated IP sooner than a migration would take
• You want IP flexibility without being locked to one VPS provider's networking

When you'd still want to switch providers instead

If your actual problem is the VPS itself — not enough RAM, wrong location, poor performance — a tunnel won't fix that. It solves the IP problem specifically, not hardware limitations.

Browse RepublicNodes VPS plans if you're starting fresh, or add a Dedicated IP to what you already have.