Ask HN: How do you name your servers? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you name your servers?

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Post by div » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 8:50 PM UTC

I use names from Alice in Wonderland.

whitequeen is my macbook, while my gaming rig is bandersnatch. The wifi id is throughthelookingglass, while the Timecapsule is called thecheshirecat, my iPhone is the dormouse.

I've some unnamed devices laying around that I've been meaning to get to :)

Re: Ask HN: How do you name your servers?

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Post by codemonkeymike » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 8:52 PM UTC

As A chem minor, I like anything chemical, Thorium is my most used VPS.

Re: Ask HN: How do you name your servers?

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Post by jamescun » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 8:54 PM UTC

For StackBlaze servers effectively had 2 available hostnames, the actual logical hostname (...net.stackserv.com. e.g. wb1.g1.rbx.net.stackserv.com, db2.g1.stb.net.stackserv.com), then a cname'ed nickname (We used pokémon for the nicknames. pikachu.net.stackserv.com, charmander.net.stackserv.com).

Re: Ask HN: How do you name your servers?

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Post by _hnwo » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 9:08 PM UTC

one cluster a few years ago had arcade game names.

Pacman, bladerunner, alien storm etc.

Another was names of metal bands. Anthrax, slayer, metallica etc.

Naming servers is the best :)

Re: Ask HN: How do you name your servers?

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Post by Zecc » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 9:19 PM UTC

Asterix characters: asterix, obelix, panoramix, ...

Planets/Roman deities: venus, ceres, apollo, jupiter, ...

Greek letters: alpha, gamma, zheta, ...

First names of famous scientists: albert, marie, alexander, ...

Re: Ask HN: How do you name your servers?

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Post by HarshaThota » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 9:34 PM UTC

There used to be a thread on Server Fault[1] about this very topic which had some interesting ideas. We liked the idea of naming them after Mountains but ended up naming our servers after characters/places from BSG.

[1] http://www.stackprinter.com/questions/the-coolest-server-nam...

Re: Ask HN: How do you name your servers?

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Post by joshAg » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 9:35 PM UTC

I name my personal computers np-complete problems. so far I've used: knapsack, k-sat, TSP, and ILP.

here's the list I use when I need to name a computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NP-complete_problems

Re: Ask HN: How do you name your servers?

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Post by callmeed » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 9:55 PM UTC

1980's Baseball Players. So far, we have:

Mattingly, Dawson, Puckett, Sandberg, Gwynn, Ripken, Saberhagen, Joyner, and Rickey. We also had Gooden, but it had problems and we had to shut it down.

Re: Ask HN: How do you name your servers?

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Post by tripzilch » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 10:01 PM UTC

Every time I named piece of hardware Nyarlathotep, it either died on me or turned weirdly buggy. True story. Don't name your machines after an avatar of the Outer Gods.

Re: Ask HN: How do you name your servers?

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Post by tjasko » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 11:01 PM UTC

Haha, good ol' Star Wars planets here :p. I usually have them all start with the same letter... http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_planets