While I use fun names for my personal computers, work servers are always descriptive: mycocache1, mycodb1, mycodb2, mycoweb1, etc.
Ask HN: How do you name your servers?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you name your servers?
#42Lately?
compute001-fluffy-switch-nv
Rinse and repeat!
Re: Ask HN: How do you name your servers?
#43Had a pair of extranet firewalls once... Romulus and Remus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus
Re: Ask HN: How do you name your servers?
#44See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1290106 for a former discussion.