Server Naming Schemes

I've seen this multiple times, and there seems to be a pattern emerging.At first, people name the machines after the software they install on it. Then, when you get to about 4-5 machines, you start finding a "cute" naming convention (Constellations, Star Trek ships, mythological figures). As long as there is only a handful of machines, it's easier to remember which machine does what.Then, as you start to scale up, between a few tens to a hundred, finding names gets hard

I name all my computers after Tolkien characters, I have a friend who names all of his after breakfast foods, my alma mater named their servers after Norse gods, all the computers where my wife worked were named after sci-fi starships. If you can't find a theme you all like, naming them something boring like `file` `print` `db`, etc. would probably work too.

I've had the same naming scheme for my personal devices for about 15 years now. The word list is from a show I was watching at the time. Workstations are protagonists, servers are antagonists, mobile devices are child characters.Last year I finally exhausted names from the first show and added a second one to my name list.Is it more logical to name them things like phone-2023-1 and cloud-server-5 - sure. But the reality is my personal infrastructure is going to max out at like 40 conc

I've always named mine after Red vs Blue characters.Laptop=sheila. Desktop=tex. Server=lopez. Names are recycled when the machine is replaced.

my first tech job was doing datacenter monkeywork and phone support for a small-town ISP. a lot of our older machines predated the "function-number" naming scheme (db01.foobar.net, web03.foobar.net etc) and instead were named after various Middle Earth locales. edge routers took regional names, firewalls usually took mountain names, web/file servers were named after big structures/cities etc. took me forever to learn (since i'd only read the books once at that point) but

I've been using names from the Mr. Men series of books, so e.g. tickle, grumpy, topsyturvy, daydream. Easy to remember because the characters are each so unique and different, and gives each machine its own personality: "Oh crap, grumpy is acting up again", etc.

I never use less than 3 chars and I try to never use more than ~8 chars.- currently for the dedicated servers that I rent at "Hetzner.de" I use just "he1", "he2", "he3", etc... . I don't have a high turnaround (e.g. I don't have he1 anymore but he2 runs since many years) and they're all located in Germany (I had one hosted in Helsinki until a few days ago but the connectivity was often really bad whenever Hetzner was doing changes to thei

My habit is to name machines after Star Wars planets /characters. But despite fact that I already have a established pattern it's often struggle to come up with a name.

My habit is to name machines after Star Wars planets /characters. But despite fact that I already have a established pattern it's often struggle to come up with a name.

My 2000-person employer (in finance!) names desktop machines with dictionary words and a short seemingly random suffix. So you could be GIRAFFE84F, there won't typically be other giraffes.Servers get names that are concatenations of meaningful abbreviations that are meaningless to an outsider, you might be on nycfithro603.Actually I can't think of any org I've worked for that had random strings for its physical machines. Cloud VMs, yes (though not always).