Server Naming Conventions

[BrinkJ]

Salutations sudo -i's,

I've been preying around on my clientzone at Afrihost and found the most awesome server names they use for their servers! But, that's side-news for now. We shall find out who is the holy name-giver there later.

I'm in the mood to throw a bunch of Linux servers together, and was wondering on what to name them all...

At home I'm using the Radioactive Elements, Noble Gases and Halo-Alkanes groups, and at work I'm using anything to do with Electricity (terms, innovators, etc.)

Any suggestions on a new naming convention? I was thinking ZA Astronomy, such as "SALT", "ProxCen", "McClean", "Glass", "Gill", etc..... (long enough list for my needs)

Stay cool and keep on saving end-users' lives with those passwd commands.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I use fictional planets on my one server. Eg. Persephone, Dakara, Hoth, etc. Plenty of those to go around too.

 

[itareanlnotani]

I go boring, and call mine based on country location + number these days.
eg usa1..usa4 or china1..7

Only have several or so to manage though, and I mostly use ansible to push stuff, so its not too much hassle either.
Back when I had 2 or 3 servers it was function related, eg mail. mysql. newsletters. web.

I did think about using simpsons characters at one point though, eg bart, marge, homer ... but it never took off as staff couldn't get their heads around those foreign sounding things.

I'm boring

 

[Arthur]

I use saints. There are hundreds.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Constellation names good too : www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellation_list.html

You can start off with the well known : Aries, Pisces, cancer, Gemini, Taurus, Orion, etc

 

[rorz0r]

I used dog breeds before. Also boring but who really cares anyway...

 

[Thor]

I use the good ol norse mythology

Severs are world's, asgard Valhalla etc

Firewall is BiFrost

Users are Gods

https://namingschemes.com/Norse_Mythology

 

[DeathStrike]

So obviously you are Thor. Who is Odin?

I only got one server to my name. Although that might change in the coming weeks.

So thanks for the tips. Will see what I call mine in future.

 

[BrinkJ]

Great ideas, folks! I'm liking the constellations and mythology ones.

 

[Wasabee!]

I name them after struggle heros.

 

[Odly]

I use the good ol norse mythology

Severs are world's, asgard Valhalla etc

Firewall is BiFrost

Users are Gods

https://namingschemes.com/Norse_Mythology

Odin must be #Root

Great Idea Thor. Ours are just named after roles but the IT guys speak about them using there static IP's

 

[requiem]

I name them after struggle heros.

Lol. You have any AMD CPU's?

 

[Thor]

Odin must be #Root

Great Idea Thor. Ours are just named after roles but the IT guys speak about them using there static IP's

That is correct Odin is my SuperUser

 

[ActivateD]

One company I was doing work at used Star Wars characters for their server names.

 

[AchmatK]

Company I work for uses comic book cities like Gotham and Metropolis. We have only four and not sure what the other two are named.

 

[pinball wizard]

I use characters from the Asterix comic books.

 

[gfmalan]

I use characters from the Asterix comic books.

Do you work for SAQA?

All the servers has this naming convention

 

[pinball wizard]

Nope.

 

[Zyraz]

I use constellation/astronomy/celestial object names
Pegasus
Magnetar
Pulsar
Vega
Orion
etc.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

You can use planets too, if you don't mind inserting a stick into Uranus every so often