Post-BF: How to name all these boxes?

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• alilet Member

  November 2017

  why do you want to name them? just shutdown and let them idle
• kassle Member

  November 2017

  @southy said:

  @kassle said:
  how about let user naming ? (duplicate with @Hxxx)

  angstrom, brueggus, cpsd, doghouch, emperor, ... yes there will be WSS too

  No, I don't want to know what you're keepig on the @WSS - box.

  not pig but clearly a dick

  @alilet said:
  why do you want to name them? just shutdown and let them idle

  dunno how to keep them in both state

  shutdown = die
  idle = still kickin alive
• corbpie Member

  November 2017

  Beefyvm
• ricardo Member

  November 2017

  Random, but if I want to get them orderly, $providerdomain-$yy-$mm-$dd where the date is the day of ordering.
• DrNutella Member

  November 2017

  @ricardo said:
  Random, but if I want to get them orderly, $providerdomain-$yy-$mm-$dd where the date is the day of ordering.

  This is not a class about theory. This is real shit, with real VPS idling away the $$ we spent like idiots.

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• ricardo Member

  November 2017

  cheapwebdev said: about theory

  Then toomuchtimeonyourhands.vm1.001
• depricated Member

  November 2017

  @mfs said:

  depricated said: Similarly, how do you keep track of passwords?

  I don't, keys/keepassxc db synced with syncthing across various devices/nitrokey cover all the scenarios

  I use KeepassXC too. Do you use AutoType with multiple accounts of the same type? (eg. cPanel, CMS) How do you name them?
• mfs Barred

  November 2017 edited November 2017

  depricated said: AutoType with multiple accounts of the same type

  KeePassHttp-Connector offers a drop-down menu if multiple accounts are relevant @ the same URL; the title accompanying the user name may be descriptive of the account like e.g. [email protected] (Emma's pics) , [email protected] (Irish scatology studies) and so on and so forth
• souen Member

  November 2017

  @mfs said:

  souen said: de4 on the list, no de3 = de3 no longer exists (cancelled, etc.)

  Occasionally, I may reuse a server name if it's from the same provider, has the same
  location and is a drop-in replacement

  and here the two Weltanschauung collide: you first are about to use a "static" approach, defined by infrastructure only, then you start blending in a "dynamic" approach, where you consider somehow the box role too. Maybe the box-formerly-known-as-de3 was a kvm box running centos and hosted emma's pics, then you dismiss the box and some six months later you get another box @ the same provider with the same virtualization type, same specs, and in the same location but devoted to nude dwarves pics; so you'll start wondering "does it fall within my own definition of drop-in replacement?"

  In the meanwhile you open a new node @ a different provider, different city yet same country and here you run debian on openvz; here you put all the emma's pics harvested during CM

  So, now you're thorn: which one of two boxes is the acceptable "drop-in replacement"? This dilemma won't bother you if you name them germanemmapic, clownfetishinberlin and falkensteinsupportsemmaagain ; awful to see yet pretty unique to you and fast to memorize (and to type, imho)

  but hey each one has its own workflow, I've been a long-time resident in OCD-ville (from disks/nets/boxes naming schemes to mp3s/flacs/m4as tagging) and eventually I gave up on it entirely

  • Same provider/specs/location = have same id, regardless of content. Role change is a good question, usually I don't change the id, but add a note what applications were added/moved. If you regularly juggle services around, it would be better to track these changes on a wiki, potentially as part of ops docs.

  • Different provider/node/location = different id, note that x content was migrated to this box.

  Indeed, to each his own. At some point, even with a naming convention that will scale well, a lot of people aren't going to memorise the names of all the boxes and the services running on each. Being able to effectively tag and search that info would be a better approach imho, and it wouldn't really matter what name you use (though clownfetishinberlin sounds more fun than do-lon-1).
• souen Member

  November 2017

  @ricardo said:
  Random, but if I want to get them orderly, $providerdomain-$yy-$mm-$dd where the date is the day of ordering.

  And hope there won't be multiple Black Friday casualties at the same provider.
• HammadKhan Member

  November 2017

  @MrPsycho said:
  This Black Friday I started naming my servers as The Hobbit characters. Works great.

  Gandalf, Bilbo, Thorin, Balin, Dwalin, Bofur, Bombur, Fili, Kili, Oin, Gloin etc.

  I do exactly the same
• alilet Member

  November 2017

  @kassle said:

  @southy said:

  @kassle said:
  how about let user naming ? (duplicate with @Hxxx)

  angstrom, brueggus, cpsd, doghouch, emperor, ... yes there will be WSS too

  No, I don't want to know what you're keepig on the @WSS - box.

  not pig but clearly a dick

  @alilet said:
  why do you want to name them? just shutdown and let them idle

  dunno how to keep them in both state

  shutdown = die
  idle = still kickin alive

  Schrödinger's VPS

  Thanked by 3WSS kassle southy