Setting up a standard naming convention for hostnames is more logical, efficient, and scalable. Include useful information in the hostname, so you don't have to map random lists of names to functions. "What does server 'Foo' do again? Oh, it is a database server. Was that production, dev, or test?" Do you (or one of your operations team) want to be figuring that out at 2AM when you get an alert? Depending on your setup, something like this may be appropriate: --- (e.g. bos-xen-mysql-005, being a virtualized Xen-based MySQL server in Boston). If you have multiple environments (dev/test/prod), add that too.
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#42In my company we're using musical instrument names for machines. Bass instruments are servers, treble instruments are laptops, and medium ones are desktops.
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#43My personal machines are named after characters from Shakespeare's The Tempest: Caliban, Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, etc.
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#44I use Star Trek ship classes and names: enterprise, defiant, voyager, galaxy, sovereign, intrepid etc.
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#45I'm a big fan moons, with planets as subnets.
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#46My lab uses painters. We have DaVinci, VanGogh, Munch, and others. What's cool about these hostnames is that we can find out other painters and learn stuff about them, such as name pronunciation, paintings, etc. When we have a new machine, we search for another painter, we look at their paintings. This is good to learn new stuff. Another good category would be rock 'n' roll bands:
- "Hey, I will run some experiments on zeppelin tonight. Is she free? Thank you." - "All our computers play a song from its hostname band. Except pinkfloyd. No one had patience to listen to a song for 20 minutes."
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#47We use Japanese food names... unadon, maguro, gyoza, yakitori, tonkatsu... mmmmm
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#48I use philosophers on my personal machines: thales, aristotle, plato, etc.
On VPSes I like names like LondonPROD/DEV.
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#49Godzilla monsters
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#50We use Pokemon. There's something super memorable about Blastoise, Slowbro, Squirtle, Ninetales, Jigglypuff... I also color my tabs the color of the Pokemon for fast reference.
This is freaking brilliant. I grew up with that game and never even considered using them for hostnames.
Considering the first generation, we would have enough names for 151 machines.