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Football teams and cities or dental staff nothing original i guess
Stargate.
Enough dial numbers for all your servers.
Body parts
So who's hosting your 'ass' or 'butt'?
Our colo'd servers are named after body parts. There is a server called boobs and so on
Characters from favourite works of art. Bonus points if the location has a connection to a character.
Example: LA is Chloe, UK is Tom/Harry, Chicago is Jane, NYC is Matt/Jonathan, Utah is Suzie, Italy is Ezio etc.
hostnamectl set-hostname $(openssl rand -hex 8)
All women name. As consolation.
Jesus Christ.
planets
VM names "Provider Prefix and VM Tech and OS Prefix and OS Version and RAM and Main Uses and Counter" e.g. VirKL9R2GBWeb1. Decide any naming convention and follow it.
For my own servers: elements from the periodic table.
At work: https://mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme/ . I have no affiliation with mnx.io, I'm not even a customer, but the article makes lots of sense.
I've used a bunch of schemes:
stars, which seemed a really good idea but it rapidly became hard to find decent, memorable star names to use
spices, because I was hungry
fictional computers, because it made sense
sequential numbers, because there were a LOT of machines to name
We use tree names, hawthorn, hickory, aspen, etc.
Ah that’s nice.
Names of those in my harem. Haven't run out of names yet.
I have been using this reference for over a year. Pretty neat.
Having far to many servers to name them weird things we do something basic such as the following.
NYC7-4-31
NYC7-4-32
Which would stand for New York, cage 7, rack 4, rackunit 31 and 32
Dopey, Doc, Bashful, Happy, Grumpy, Sleepy and Sneezy
I'm currently using mountains in the region of the data centre (for instance Taunus for Frankfurt) or in the absence of mountains I'm using rivers (Seine for Paris, IJ for Amsterdam).
In the past I used cartoon characters (Homer, Krusty, Itchy, Scratchy, Morty) but I sometimes forgot which server was which.
At work we have far too many (virtual) servers to do anything frivolous. So it'd be country-city-severtype-numer. I.e.: BE-AN-MX-01 for a mail server in Antwerp.
For my personal servers , I use anime character name or use mythological beast names .
I thought of stars or constellations, but come to think of it, I probably won’t be able remember them 😂
prxomox hosts - blossom, bubbles, buttercup
and vms are names from my little ponys
You could always name your servers after the videos you watch on pornhub
Of the guys or the girls?
Whatever floats your boat I suppose. Girls for me
Hetzner001, Hetzner002...
I name my servers after LET members I have banned.
There is a whole wiki with thousands of naming schemes...try them all:
https://namingschemes.com/Main_Page
1 - get rid of all idling servers
2 - put all your services on 1 big enough VM from a reputable provider or a dedi (if necessary)
3 - get rig of now newly idling servers
4 - find 1 good name
5 - relax
(If you end up with 2/3 vm for better isolation, or out of sheer paranoia that's kinda fine, just use city1 city2 - and as you'd likely have them in different cities anyway you can likely skip the number).