How do you name your servers?

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  • edited September 2022

    My scuffed GlusterFS cluster™ made up of KS-1s is collectively called yo-momma

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  • @jmgcaguicla said:
    My scuffed GlusterFS cluster™ made up of KS-1s is collectively called yo-momma

    Surely you don't have a FAT filesystem on top of that?

  • @ralf said:

    @jmgcaguicla said:
    My scuffed GlusterFS cluster™ made up of KS-1s is collectively called yo-momma

    Surely you don't have a FAT filesystem on top of that?

    Unfortunately I don't, would've been funnier if the underlying drives were. Maybe next time.

  • My personal servers are named by country, like us1, us2, jp1, nl1, nl2, uk1 etc.
    But I rarely use those names anywhere but in monitoring, since all the services are pointing to dns aliases.

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  • The lamest scheme of them all - ancient gods

    Easy to remember and easy to spell. If it were not for the later I'd do nordic gods, but Höðr in a console may take a while if I'm using a UK keyboard on a US server...

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  • edited September 2022

    @rhinoduck said:
    toogoodtopassup
    herewegoagain
    walletbreaker
    thistimeyoureallyfuckedup
    youdontevenneedme
    stopbuyingalready
    gogethelp
    definitelythelastone
    itsonlyonedolla
    oohexoticlocation
    whyareyoulikethis
    mightdeadpoolbutcheeeap
    fomo11
    definitelyneededperu
    apacforabetterprice
    willusethisonelaterthisyear
    dontforgettocanceltheotherone
    wellfucknowihavethreeofthese
    damnyouvirbot
    damnyouvirbot2
    damnyouvirbot3
    abittoofarbutareallygoodprice
    iwishihadthisineurope
    damnyouvirbot4
    damnyouvirbot5
    aussieaussieaussieoioioi

    my pass at line 17 btw

  • dave01
    dave02
    dave03
    dave04
    dave05
    dave06
    dave08
    dave09
    dave10

    And so on, so forth

  • ehabehab Content Writer

    @chris said:
    dave01
    dave02
    dave03
    dave04
    dave05
    dave06
    dave08
    dave09
    dave10

    And so on, so forth

    dave-f+ed

    sounds great too

  • @chris said:
    dave01
    dave02
    dave03
    dave04
    dave05
    dave06
    dave08
    dave09
    dave10

    And so on, so forth

    You need at least one called chas.

  • @vyas said:
    Named after ex girlfriend’s

    Why are you registered here then when you have zero servers at all?

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  • All my servers are named after starship names from star trek, star wars, stargate, etc.. or they are named after sexy women. Prod servers are named after purpose and location.

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  • vyasvyas OGRetired

    @uniquoo said:

    @vyas said:
    Named after ex girlfriend’s

    Why are you registered here then when you have zero servers at all?

    What makes you believe I have zero servers? ^.^

  • @vyas said:

    @uniquoo said:

    @vyas said:
    Named after ex girlfriend’s

    Why are you registered here then when you have zero servers at all?

    What makes you believe I have zero servers? ^.^

    I couldnt resist making that joke :astonished:

  • Took from navy ships of different countries. If there are multiple locations within that country, name after the city/provider.

  • edited September 2022

    As I own 100+ servers I follow this naming method.

    1st Alphabet denotes its purpose - W
    2nd Number of Servers used for that purpose - 01
    3rd City - Houston
    4th State - Texas
    5th Provider - DataIdeas

    So it will be W-01-Houston-Texas-DataIdeas

    As soon as my monitor notified me about the downtime, I got all the info needed.

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  • edited September 2022

    IP:
    xxx.xxx.123.4
    LA234
    xxx.xxx.123.45
    SYD345
    xxx.xxx.123.456
    SG456

    Location: LA, SYD, SG

  • @vyas said:
    Named after ex girlfriend’s

    I thought this was a super clever thing to do until I got in trouble for it. Now I use superhero's real names (like Beast, real name Hank McCoy, vps name "hank").

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    I ain’t reading all that, but I’m happy for you though. Or sorry that happened.

  • vyasvyas OGRetired
    edited September 2022

    @zed said:

    @vyas said:
    Named after ex girlfriend’s

    until I got in trouble for it.

    Lol
    Was this before Cloudflare era?

    Now I can show the Mrs:
    "Look, even Cloudflare uses names like
    pat.ns.cloudflare.com
    tony.ns.cloudflare.com
    so also

    Bob
    Stan
    Lola
    Amir ..."

    I am just naming the servers after women instead. "

    Working well so far.

    Edit:

    Turns out some one compiled a list of all 900 of CF nameservers

    https://github.com/indianajson/cloudflare-nameservers

  • I've tried many naming schemes, I'm consistent only on this one:
    "ISO country code"-"name of a random Roman/Greek/Viking deity"-" generic purpose"
    example: DE-thor-mail, SG-vulcan-proxy, FR-minerva-server
    alias & RDNS:
    "purpose"."digits"."domain"
    example: mail$(two_digits_number).$(real_domain_name), proxy$(two_digits_number).$(real_domain_name), server$(two_digits_number).$(real_domain_name)

    root is always disabled and the sudoer is always named after an emperor. Ex. nero@mail02....
    The combination emperor+deity reminds me of each server job more than anything else. Even if it's completely unrelated to anything tech related. An additional tmux script reminds me what the hell is Nero doing with Thor in Germany. He's doing Mails! It's obvious, isn't it?

    I need holidays

  • ShakibShakib Hosting Provider

    They are all named earth. 🌍

    Cause they works on earth. 😂

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  • Server company name and basic specs, like "ovh4c4g80g". Boring, but it lets me know when i ssh in what I should or shouldn't be expecting to throw at it

  • nessanessa Hosting Provider

    I didn't come up with the naming scheme of our servers, but I always wanted to do a South Park cluster where all the server names are characters from the show.

    RamNode: High Performance Cloud VPS
    NYC - LA - ATL - SEA - NL - DDoS Protection

  • @nessa said:
    I didn't come up with the naming scheme of our servers, but I always wanted to do a South Park cluster where all the server names are characters from the show.

    With Kenny being the one with the lowest uptime

  • @jmgcaguicla said:

    @nessa said:
    I didn't come up with the naming scheme of our servers, but I always wanted to do a South Park cluster where all the server names are characters from the show.

    With Kenny being the one with the lowest uptime

    Kenny is rebooted by cron each night.

    As for naming, purely purpose for me:
    web0X
    mx0X
    smtp-out0X
    backupX
    nsX and so on..

  • @kyaky said:
    xxx.xxx.123.456
    SG456

    Is this IPv9?

  • I use iafd and randomly pick a name. :)

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