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04-28-2012, 05:30 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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How do you name your nodes?
This is meant to be more of a fun thread, but how do you name your servers? I've seen some really interesting and complex naming systems. I don't understand the point of it, as it makes it much harder to keep track of the age and information of a server, but they're still fun. Personally, we'll be using a simple number + letter system (I.E. - GTKC1(s1) for GraviTech Kansas City #1 [Server Config Type 1])
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04-28-2012, 05:45 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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3 Parts to my naming convention
Part 1 - 3 character Airport Code (if no airport is nearby then I abbreviate the city name)
Part 2 - 2-4 character abbreviation for the server role
Part 3 - 2-3 digit indicator for the next increment in the number of roles defined that match the above.
I.E. JAXWEB01, JAXWEB02 are web servers in Jacksonville, FL
ORDDNS01 is my secondary DNS Server in Chicago, IL
MLBNET01 is my switch/router IP in Melbourne, FL
CAS (Exchange Client Access Server), HUB (Exchange Hub Tranport Server), MBX (Exchange Mail Box Server), DC (Domain Controller), FPS (File and Print Server), ESX (VMWare ESX Server), XEN (Citrix Xen Server), SQL (Microsoft or MySQL Server) are all common conventions that I use.
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04-28-2012, 05:50 PM #3The VPS Specialist
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At the moment it's based on provision number, virtualisation type and location. Previously i've used colours, fictional characters and...... Star Trek.
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04-28-2012, 06:30 PM #4Retired Moderator
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I don't have servers to name any longer, but I do deal with clients that have anywhere between 5 - 1000 boxes.
Some of the best ones I've come across recently.
Transformer names .. bumblebee.domain, optimusprime.domain etc.
Disney characters .. mickey.domain, goofy.domain etc.
And weirdly, no kidding, body parts.
arm.domain, leg.domain, foot.domain etc.
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04-28-2012, 06:38 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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A combination of my pets name, location, provider and Chasis id.
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04-28-2012, 06:39 PM #6Retired Moderator
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Pokemon has been the most interesting theme I've seen.
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04-28-2012, 06:40 PM #7The VPS Specialist
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04-28-2012, 06:44 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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We used names of popular chocolate bars to start with..no idea why! but that soon became unmangable really.
So now its just vz1.. xn1.. cp1.. etc (openvz, xen, cpanel)
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04-28-2012, 06:55 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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Some things I've used at previous employers / clients.
Star wars characters (han, luke, chewy, etc)
Lost characters (mreko, jack, hurley.. and locations for internal servers (theswan, theblackrock, thepearl)
greek alphabet (alpha, beta, gamma, etc)
Marvel comic characters (Banshee, Carnage, Blade, etc)
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04-28-2012, 06:55 PM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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interesting topic,
I use for shared and reseller servers this simple combination
server1.
server2.
server3.
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serverN.
and for vps node:
vps01.
vps02.
vps03.
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vpsNN.
i see people that use planets names
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04-28-2012, 06:57 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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04-28-2012, 11:25 PM #13Cloud & Web Hosting Specialist
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We have used server10 (1.0), server11 (1.1 - replacement), server20 (2.0), server21 (2.1 - replacement), etc in the past but we are in the process of shifting this to <Hosting Plan>-<Server #>.
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04-29-2012, 02:48 AM #14(formerly WhichGunDotCom)
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I name my servers based on WWII firearms.
garand
browning
thompson
springfield
Currently I have only 4 servers so have been using U.S. firearms, but will "branch out" to other countries when I need to (mosin-nagant, arisaka, mauser, etc.).
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04-29-2012, 08:40 AM #15Retired Moderator
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04-29-2012, 02:43 PM #16Junior Guru Wannabe
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We use a quite simple system. All servers have a prefix and a number. Ex ws for webserver (shared hosting), vps, dedicated, cp (controlpanel) etc...
Could be fun with some more inspiring names such as other people have mentioned.. Such as bodyparts :-P But i think we will stick with this system :-P██ One2Host.eu - Hosting solutions
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04-29-2012, 03:02 PM #17Junior Guru Wannabe
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i don't think you will run out of names http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPNames.html
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04-29-2012, 03:48 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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We have some servers named completely random things. Then for sanity purposes just naming them by location. sjc001, dal001, ams001 etc. Although realizing really knowing the location isn't that helpful for technicians anyways. We already built systems before hand to be looking up machines.
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04-29-2012, 04:10 PM #19Aspiring Evangelist
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Currently we use element names, although when we start to upgrade our infrastructure we will move to something like <number>.<role>.<location>.domain, so our first webserver in London, for example, will be 001.web.lon.domain
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04-29-2012, 04:16 PM #20New Member
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i keep random names ..,
like phoenix, viper , avenger ...
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04-29-2012, 05:49 PM #21Disabled
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This is a great idea!
Only problem is, what if you get a LOT of servers then you'll run out. But... then you could just upgrade the servers to handle more customers, and you're good to go...
Then again, if you have good enough servers, even the biggest shared hosts could run only 20 or so servers...
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04-29-2012, 06:08 PM #22Web Host Reviewer
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There's really nothing wrong with numbers.
Examples: us1.server.com, us2.server.com, eu1.server.com, ca1.server.com, etc
Hosts that use cutesy names are generally ridiculous. Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, and Tweety are Looney Tunes, for example -- not servers. Though using such names is not necessarily unprofessional, you'll generally find only unprofessional hosts do it.
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04-29-2012, 06:12 PM #23Disabled
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well we use.. web1, web2 .... and so on for *nix machines and win1, win2.. for windows servers.
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04-29-2012, 06:26 PM #25Web Hosting Master
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