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uvwhsr401nv = Us Virtual(server..) Web Hosting Server 401 Nginx Varnish... 4xx is provider number(my own listing..) and xx1 is first server...
city1.country.domain.tld or use... web1./web2. & sql.domain.tld
I usually name my servers after planets. My favourite ones are Pluto, Mars and Jupiter. (Yes I know Pluto is technically a minor-planet but...)
VPS Nodes: vps01, vps02, and so on. Shared Hosting/Reseller servers: svr01 and so forth.
I have a few methods depending on the project i have some projects where all the nodes are the same type of machine not specs but same jobs. So i will name them like this.
project-airport-dc-number
if i need to add a type i add it after project or after the dc this is assuming the node names are under a gernal domain name if the nodes are under the projects domain then i removet he project part. what makes this really useful is email lines i can see what project its to if its non production project i may ignore it and then airport code will help because i may put something in some airport code that is not imporant and then so on. the dic is not the real dc but the vender just becse the dc may have up time just dine but the provider stucks
I was going down the ingredients route but I'm thinking about changing to food.
Currently: eggs, flour, salt, pepper etc...
Thinking about: cheese, pizza, bacon, muesli etc...
Names of foods, usually desserts - crepe, custard, kheer, tartufo, etc...
Colors
cyborg, tornado, skyline, alphaxed, cat, angel, evo, tyrone, sphinx
whatever comes in my mind lol
i think all of you should see a doctor.
i call mines:
hey server, kitty server... come server.., who is a good server!, sit!, hand!.
I used to name them after actresses like actress.domain.com . Now its location.provider.domain.com .
Maria, Victoria, Elena, Katherine, Rosmery, etc
Used to name them from Futurama characters, but nowadays it's just ash-ovz-01 etc
Hmm, I name them off of scifi starships, but I only have 3 of them atm...
Greek Gods
fruits, fruits everywhere...
apple.domain.tld
banana.domain.tld etc..
I bans then Greek (and Norse) gods usually.
I don't know why I just always have.
But usually the name doesn't match fhe server. One of my RPi's names is THOR.. While my e3/e5 is ares/hades
In the old days I always used names from the periodic table. Or animals from Avatar. Both where pretty fun and unused.
I use names of gemstones. The only exception was one tremendously horrid VPS, which I named YellowPissStain.network.tld
I call them as such: "Here, server, server!"
I'm using the names of most luminous stars in the sky, such as Polaris, Antares, Fomalhaut, Procyon, Canopus.. etc.
I name mine after LET members who praise me the most.
After a lot of different naming schemes we settled on -
Country-city-datacenter-server
Example USA-AVL-ID-SRV100 is the 100th server in us asheville Immedion dc.
After pornstars for how much load they can take.
Most of my servers are weather related, though a few are still location based (city name, type, number)
If VPS: vserver(n).(country iso).tld
If dedi: s(n).(country iso).tld
Babylon1, Babylon2, Babylon3, Babylon4, Babylon5, BattlestarGalactica
Elements of the periodic table: hydrogen, helium, lithium...
Currently I use two naming schemas:
And yes, I can remember which is which because I choose names basing on functions - i.e. 3 dns servers are named after 3 witches, dns1 is oldest, and dns3 youngest of them ; )
If I'd have 10 (let's say) DB servers I could name them after Discworld Guards that I perfectly remember.
This kind of naming is really convinient if You takie it this way. Previously I named them after philosophers, but I've got no clue about philosophy : )
Only have one VPS and I call it Marilyn. Why Marilyn??
...because it goes down faster and more frequently than the actress's underwear!!