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View Full Version : Server Names
Ratty 10-28-2002, 02:03 PM Through out my years of dealing with multi server enviroments one of the harder tasks has always been choosing a good name, ie <servername>.yourdomain.com.
When I was at university it we started with Planets (mars, saturn etc) and then when they ran out moved to native american tribe names (cherokee, souix etc). My first job after uni we used liquers (bourbon, tanquary etc). As I move on in my career and move into larger corporate eviroments the names have become more boring (app-dev, prod1 etc).
Now that I am starting to build out the number of my own personal servers I am having to choose names again but unfortunatly I'm not having much creative luck, and the best my wife can offer is the names of seaseme street characters (elmo, bigbird etc).
What does everyone else call their servers?
JeremyV 10-28-2002, 02:04 PM I call mine "zen" :agree:
KualoJo 10-28-2002, 02:08 PM We name ours after shakespearean plays...
BUT
I like the idea of naming them after great musical legends, hendrix, marley etc. ;)
Jo
binasys 10-28-2002, 03:06 PM We use Simpsons characters, hardly original... but I like it. :)
Lamont 10-28-2002, 03:40 PM AWH is using luxury cars: porsche, hummer, ferrari, etc. I ride in the Hummer :stickout:
michaeln 10-28-2002, 03:50 PM We use the names of cities and towns.
mwatkins 10-28-2002, 03:53 PM I use camera brands...
hassy
nikon
rollei
etc.
I've also used food frequently
pizza (and it looked like one)
burger
fries
You could use racing terms
pit
stop
Or body parts
arm
leg
head
nose
pit
LOL
Make it short is all I can say.
alchiba 10-28-2002, 04:06 PM Names of Shakespeare characters. Plenty of those and for the most part don't lend themselves to many spelling errors. I especially like the obscure ones, but I think I'll avoid Bigot.
bearone 10-28-2002, 04:17 PM pick your favorite sci fi series or book and go with the names in it.
Andyc 10-28-2002, 04:19 PM We use Simpsons character names as well...
Acronym BOY 10-28-2002, 05:54 PM Geek alphabet.
Or try binary labeling:
0000.domain.com
0001.domain.com
0010.domain.com
0011.domain.com
0100.domain.com
0101.domain.com
etc...
Or if you have more than 16 servers:
00000000.domain.com
00000001.domain.com
00000010.domain.com
etc...
But thats only 256 servers, if you have more than that, try hexidecimal. :)
vibehosts 10-28-2002, 07:53 PM We've always used car names
Abaddon 10-28-2002, 08:02 PM I use pops at the moment
sprite
drpepper
pepsi
But in the past I used to use norse and greek mythos
Valhalla
Zues
You could use Stellar names
Andromeda
Milkyway
ChickenSteak 10-28-2002, 08:52 PM What we do is:
rackone.domain.com
racktwo.domain.com
rackthree.domain.com
rackfour.domain.com
rackfive.domain.com
racksix.domain.com
rackseven.domain.com
rackeight.domain.com
racknine.domain.com
rackten.domain.com
and so on... Although we are due to change this, as it's just a little to blantant, we will probably end up using car names: hummer, farrari, lamburgini, jaguar, etc, etc
UH-Matt 10-28-2002, 09:24 PM Do a search there was an identicle thread to this a couple of weeks ago.. ended up a few pages long.
P.S. we use beer names.
stella, carlsberg, cobra etc...
ChickenSteak 10-28-2002, 09:26 PM Originally posted by UH-Matt
Do a search there was an identicle thread to this a couple of weeks ago.. ended up a few pages long.
P.S. we use beer names.
stella, carlsberg, cobra etc... :beer:
EGN-Steve 10-28-2002, 10:03 PM My partner (dreamHOBO) Insisted I use angela.. I guess we will just use random names
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