Hey all,

I was thinking of server names. But boy is that hard :eek: I was thinking TXdns.com CAdns.com but not sure. If anyone would wanna help that be great http://www.freehostforum.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Mike.

I send you a Pm in a second... you look ok for an idea i have.

Edit. You have not habilited PM ?

I am interested in the low reseller package, and i sign the friday... =P

I cant get pms right now.

you will need to email sales about our packages. If you would email me your idea to mike@warmwebhost.com that would be great!

Server names?

How about "ChuckNorrisServerOfAwesomeness.yourdomain.com"?

Or "StevenSeigalRulez.yourdomain.com"

Server names can be literally anything you want. What do you expect to accomplish with this thread, exactly?

Popular server names are:

Star Trek
Planets
Animals
Ex-Husbands
.
.
.

I personally name all my shared and reseller hosting servers after snakes (Python, Cobra, Viper etc). My media servers dont get the luxury of a name lol.

Just call them whatever you want. Most people go for recognised names rather then say names out of thier favourite local television program.

In terms of popularity, id say names relating to the likes of Camelot and Star Trek are extremely popular within the industry.

:)

One of our servers is called icebox. Get it, coldmedia - Icebox :)

Whilst fun names are all great I found there are real scability issues. AS such all of our servers are in the form of

service-serverno-location.vaserv.com

e.g.

vz-1-tx.vaserv.com (Virtuozzo, Server 1,Texas)

Makes life a lot easier

Yes that what i am trying to do a2b2.

I would want our server names to show where the server is and what its used for.

Thanks for all the great idea's! Keep em coming!

You can start in alphabetical order. Example Arthur, Banana, California

You can name by planets, animals or food... or name of sexiest celebrities in the world.. lol :)

Server names?

How about "ChuckNorrisServerOfAwesomeness.yourdomain.com"?

Or "StevenSeigalRulez.yourdomain.com"




I laughed out loud and scared the cat! :D

--Tina

MY servers are named as Tomcat, Flacon, Hawk etc(after the name of war machines0

Its personal choice...;)

Ive got ours similar to A2B2's idea. cp-serv1-nj.domain.com (cPanel-Server1-new jersey.ourdomain.com)

How about your private label servers? How do you get your idea's for the domain names?

I prefer a naming convention instead of 'computer-readable'. ie, I've had or seen server groups named after gemstones, precious metals, towns (places I've lived), landscape features (at university - all local landmarks), birds (the sysadmin was a twitcher).

At work, the FM team named their workstations 'abcd12345d' and its a nuisance when you want to tell one from the other as they tend to blend into each other after a while. Unless you have a lot, 'nice' names are better. Especially if you decide to combine servers one day - your DNS server may share the mail server one day, what will you call it then?

Depending on how many servers you have, using a standardized naming scheme can help. I have my company servers and client servers so names can be confusing. I basically use the initials of the company using the servers then the server purpose. For example:

ab-www1.domain.com would be web server #1 with company initials ab
ab-mail1.domain.com would be mail server #1
ab-mysql1.domain.com
ab-ns1.domain.com same as ns1.domain.com but helps identify by company as well.
ab-vwww1.domain.com would be virtual host, multi purpose web server.

This way, you know exactly what the server is used for and as you grow life can be less confusing. I do not use location names for geographic locations but that is a good idea as well.

Well all web servers are named after planets or random things never thought much about it. The only machines that get names are the dns machines since they'll always be ns1,ns2,ns3 ect.