These are just a few of the ideas we had for naming our servers. If you think of a more original naming scheme, please post details. :)

Thanks

server1 server2 is more easy to remember, rather that then other names.. and it sounds good too..

Cities, Colours, Countries, Planets and Animals I've seen before at various hosting companies. US States is a bit country-specific for me and numbers don't really do it for me either.... so Other.

Not quite sure what though :)

How about musicians: hendrix, dylan, morrison, etc?

Trouble is with a lot of musicians is that they tend to die at an early age in the prime of their career.... not a good omen for a server :eek: :)

Be original ...ex girlfriends/boyfriends/wifes/husbands.

just kidding. :D

How about a "Made Up Name" list ;)

Female made up names
http://www.kabalarians.com/female/madeup-f.htm

Male made up names
http://www.kabalarians.com/male/madeup-m.htm

There's also quite a few cool mineral names
http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/byname.htm

Santa Clause has quite a few interesting names around the world
http://www.lnstar.com/mall/main-areas/santafaq.htm

Castles have many different types of names
http://www.kctv.ne.jp/~ketc/students/pages/kimikotomoko/names.html

Rather than states...why not state flowers?
http://www.anewleaf.com/florist/stateflowers.htm

Here's a list of cyclone names
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

In other words...try to find something unique and special for yourself... Themes are usually nice especially if they are unique.

For our own servers we didn't go with a set theme though I often wish we would have. We sort of name each one as they are 'born' sort of like naming a child lol...

I do think it's best to name a server something you can 'call it' easily in a conversation. It's shocking how often you'll find yourself talking about (or even to) the server as if it were a human :stickout

Thanks for the great ideas Deb. You have been a big insipiration to me and my wife while building our business. Its great to have "real" people like yourself on the forums. Makes the day a little easier. :)

Thanks to everyone else too. Keep the ideas coming! :cool:

Fruits... or foods... I once did those, certainly fun.

Call it GlideTech :D

Originally posted by Darth
Call it GlideTech :D

Thats ok right now since we only have one server, but when we start getting more we will want to have a fancy naming scheme. ;) :cool:

We did saints..

jude.okihost.com
mary.okihost.com
john.okihost.com

All depends on what you like.. My wife though this idea up I have seen everything though from cars to kids names..

How about naming your servers after the people who wrote the software you're using?

torvalds.glidetech.com
behlendorf.glidetech.com
cox.glidetech.com
miller.glidetech.com
raymond.glidetech.com
stallman.glidetech.com

et cetera.

We name ours after bands we ( well I ) like :)

Body parts! :D

Now that's an idea... I should start naming the machines around here like that... :)

how about The Wombles:
http://www.wombles.tv/

I personally wish we'd done it. :)

orinoco.server.com
tomsk.server.com
shansi.server.com

etc etc

Another idea:

Name your servers after sounds... :D

Like "ding dong, zZzZzZzzzz...., etc..."

how about cartoons characters? You have a long list there.

Thanks for the great ideas Deb. You have been a big insipiration to me and my wife while building our business. Its great to have "real" people like yourself on the forums. Makes the day a little easier. Wow, happy to know I've done something to help ;) Trust me... the inspirations go both ways which is probably why I hang out here ;)

Having a husband/wife team has been a blast for us though I think it takes a unique couple to pull it off. My husband and I spend 99.9% of our time only 4ft from each other 7 days a week ... It ummm takes some getting used to LOL

Are there children over there as well or just the two of you for now? This probably belongs in a different thread but I wonder how many other hosts around here started off with the "whole family" dedicated to the hosting business vs. just a single member of the family working it while the others do 'their own thing'...

One other note on server names -- We also try to ensure our server names are easy to spell and type. We've tried to hold to an 8 character limit.

Originally posted by Deb
Having a husband/wife team has been a blast for us though I think it takes a unique couple to pull it off. My husband and I spend 99.9% of our time only 4ft from each other 7 days a week ... It ummm takes some getting used to LOL

I know exactly what you are talking about! lol. She is not as into it as I am, but still a big help either way. We are still very small (less than 20 customers) so its not alot of work right now, but in the future I know it will take a joint effort to keep things going smoothly. Right now I just have to talk her into answering support tickets :stickout One step at a time ;)


Are there children over there as well or just the two of you for now?

Right now it is just the 2 of us, but there is one on the way in October. I am already teaching her the basics and she hasn't even seen daylight yet. :D


One other note on server names -- We also try to ensure our server names are easy to spell and type. We've tried to hold to an 8 character limit.

Good point. Thanks again for the tips. :agree:

US presidents. Oh wait, there will be 2 Bush'es :D

Why not astrology? Of course, you'd probably only have 24 names to choose from (Western and Chinese zodiology), but after that you could switch to planets. :D

Originally posted by Kiwi
Be original ...ex girlfriends/boyfriends/wifes/husbands.

just kidding. :D

Seriously... At a job I used to intern at we nick-named the servers after ex's....

It was all fun and games until our boss over heard us one day...

Actual Conversation

AnonymousTech: "I was so pissed off... Cindy went down on me during my lunch break"

Boss: "What the HELL!"

After a 3 minutes of explaining he found it very damn funny but, he nix'd the idea so we had to go back to the original name scheme. Family pet names... Now here was my little muse. Which sounds worse.

1) "Cindy went down on me"
2) "Butch went down on me" (Butch was the name of a secretary's pitt bull)

I prefer Cindy but, our boss had the final call... I just could never have to nerve to say Butch like that... :D

How about elements from the periodic table?

I name my home computers after failed dot-coms. Even RackShack could name all of their servers after 'em. ;)

Rocky Horror Picture Show characters ;)


Lats...

I voted for animals. meeeeewwwww.

Try tiger, mouse, cat, rat, monkey, lion etc.

http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html
"The Greek Alphabet"

Use Spanish numbers!
Uno dos tres cuatro cinco etc.

We name our main production servers after fish... seems to work pretty well.

Originally posted by jeellison
How about elements from the periodic table?

But for larger hosts there are not enough elements :D
And I don't think he could wait adding a new server until a new element is found...

Calling them by any geographical location is not a good thing.

What if you expand and now have servers in 6 cities? Server NY would be in Chicago, and LA would be in Miami.

Go with musicians, constellations, female names, etcetc.

Naked women.

Couples....

Bonnie & Clyde
Cheech & Chong
Sonny & Cher
Morcombe & Wise
Derreck & Clive
John & Yoko
Franklin & Eleanor
John & Jackie
John & Yoko
Ronald & Nancy
George & Martha
Darin & Samantha
Ricky & Lucy
Adam & Eve
Dagwood & Blondie
Romeo & Juliet
Fred & Wilma
Beauty & The Beast
Ma & Pa
Mike & Carol
Mickey & Minnie Mouse
Donald & Daisy
Barney & Betty
Anthony & Cleopatra
Superman - Lois
Barbie - Ken
Dagwood & Blondie
Samson & Delilah
Homer & Marge
Antonio & Melanie
Jennifer & Brad

Hundreds more to choose from, email for our FREE catalogue :D

porn stars!!!! :stickout

Originally posted by jhcashman
porn stars!!!! :stickout

Forgot that one, debbie & dallas

Originally posted by jhcashman
porn stars!!!! :stickout

LOL, I already use those for sexy-hosting.com :)

he he.... can i request to be on the kobi tai server? :stickout

We're on X-Men at the moment.

Lot's of people use the periodic table, fruit + veg names, beverages are popular too e.g. vodka, martini. We did consider body parts but thought some people could get offended when we'd run out of arms, legs etc. and moved on to ones like nipple, penis etc. - so we gave it a miss, although we did have a few laughs along the way.

Our 2 servers were based on insults

1st was "Weapon"
2nd was "Cheese"

next was going to be "tart"

but we didnt get that far

Thanks

There was that list, but I don't know what it is called. When they exchange letters over the radio, they use words for them.

I'm trying google with no luck.

Found them!


Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India
Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo
Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu

Give me a good bottle of red any day...

shiraz
cabernet
pinot
zinfandel
merlot

over 20 in reds and whites.

fetus.glidetech.com

I name my hosting servers after candy bars:-D

Then other machines I tend to name after various cities worldwide.

how about star wars characters? skywalker, r2d2, bobbafett, solo, hutt, etc...

Knights of the Round Table, including Merlin for the master server and lesser knights for the workstations

Originally posted by ubergeek22
Knights of the Round Table, including Merlin for the master server and lesser knights for the workstations

Carlos3D will get mad at you :D

Originally posted by timechange


Carlos3D will get mad at you :D

He'll get mad at me for having root@yaxay.com as an email address :D...

how about make a sentence so when u put all your servers together you get that sentence

:rolleyes:

How about ice cream flavours!

chocolate.server.com
vanilla.server.com
raspberry.server.com

etc...

Why did I spell "flavours" with a "u"... I'm not British... :eek: I think all of the UK WHT users are getting to me :D

Our first server, we called it PIMP :D

i named it too

We did Greek gods....Zeus, Apollo, Orion, Hercules, etc, etc.

hmm name your servers...
.

saddam, Fidel (castro), Hitler, Stalin...

;)

If you do that, might as well use cyberwings.glidetech.com also :D

c-i-host.glidetech.com :D tacidhost.glidetech.com :D donhost.glidetech.com :D

best_hosting.glidetech.com

staywithusordie.glidetech.com

wegotyouraddress.glidetech.com

nosubliminalmessageshere.glidetech.com

Name it in foods

hamburger.gli
greenpeas.gli
sprouts.gli

that will get your customers going :)

nosubliminalmessageshere.glidetech.com ROFLMAO!!! G'Idea :stickout

Voted for animals; gives a bit more of character to the servers :stickout