What do you name your servers?

Question

System administration

Good time of the day.
It became interesting how the admins call their servers.
Yandex, for example, uses different alphabets, car names, detergents, etc. Someone uses girls' names, someone just 'server0', 'server1'.
Share your names or your naming convention.

Answer 1

Personally, I call by the first letters of the name of the project. For example, kb1, rb1.
There was a practice of naming projects after the names of girls - unsuccessful. Once the authorities in my conversation with the administrator heard "Irina is lying and waiting for you." For half a day they explained who “Irina” was and why she was “lying”. And then I had to rename all the server ranks.

Answer 2

There was a big topic from the notorious habrauser and stormy comments in it. Recommend.

Answer 3

The name is used
- company name (there are several) - 3 characters
- city - 5 characters
- server type - 3 characters (FPS, APP, XCH, DOM, etc.)
- serial number - two digits

Answer 4

The main thing is not to call the server Kenny.

Answer 5

As you name the server, you will earn so much money on it))
We call it by the names of precious metals and stones))))

Answer 6

At my first job, servers were named after poets.
lib_pushkin, lib_tolstoy, lib_chehov, lib_bunin, lib_bulgakov, lib_turgenev

Answer 7

Somehow they tested a cross-domain application, the domain names were the names of the US states, and the servers themselves were given the names of the cities. The state capital is the domain controller. You can take not only the United States. A side effect is the study of geography. At one time, I read about every city on the wiki.

Answer 8

At the Department of Computers at Ben Gurion University, once (and maybe now) all computers (both workstations and servers) were by color (there are many color names in English!) - silver, black, indigo, cyan, emerald, steel ... more than 40 probably
At the university-wide computer center, everything was along the rivers of the Negev that dry up in summer - arava, shikma, chen ...

Answer 9

I agree with the functional names for production servers.
However, if the servers are public (for example, hosting servers), then sonorous and memorable names are needed for users who do not know anything about the functionality and are generally not very in the subject - the names of planets, letters of ancient alphabets, etc.

Answer 10

Names of characters from the anime Hayate no Gotoku!
Hayate, Nagi, Tama…

Answer 11

hostNNN. Up to a hundred, the first subnet, after a hundred, the second subnet. In the second DC, wNNN is also on the subnet.

Answer 12

You can call the server the same algorithm that was used, which was used in the Spectrum toy Elite.
— And where is the RAXXLA server?
- Yes, who knows, no one can find him.

Answer 13

uh, functional?
db_main
db_slave
balance
www_main
www_1
www_2
www_payments

Answer 14

By service. exxchange, tmg, terminal, sharepoint_internal...
Only our CD doesn't sound very euphonious, but we don't want to rename it anymore, it's problematic.

Answer 15

Workers - in terms of functionality. Game - either the names of Greek letters (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, etc.) or the names of stars (Centaura, Antares, Agena).

Answer 16

by the names of the satellites of the planets

Answer 17

One server type character and its ordinal number.
.1 .2 .3 - fronts
d1 d2 - databases.
The number always matches the IP tail of the server on the internal network.
In total, if you burst into the admin and say that .2 is lying, everything is immediately clear to him, and there is no need to remember who Agena is - a blonde or a brunette.

Answer 18

Apelsin
Banan
Citrus
Dodge
Eclipse
…
and so on within.
if there are many servers in the DC, then the racks are by the name of the country, and the servers / equipment are also spelled

Answer 19

If there are few servers, and the order is important, then by the name of the planets from one toy (:.
If everything is “production”, then
hsl1D34
1. h-hardware
1. v-virtual
2. s -server
2. w -workstation
3. w -* windows-like
3. l -*nix-like
4. machine id
Everything else in the database.

Answer 20

I really love tanks. And I call the servers by the name of our ones that participated in the Second World War, such as is-1, isu-152, kv-2, t-34, bt-5 and so on)

Answer 21

The names of Elder Futhark runes are: algiz, dagaz, kaunan, wunjo, hagalaz (this is, however, a desktop - I did not dare to call the server that) and so on.

Answer 22

if a general-purpose server, then minisrvXX or srvXX (depending on the “sizes”), if for specific purposes, then dbsrvXX, smbsrvXX, wwwsrvXX, XX is a serial number.
If this is just a piece of iron in its second life (for a small task, not critical, but necessary), then like acer5920 is an old laptop with a dead screen, debian, samba and a torrent downloader :)

Answer 23

I am currently renovating and automating everything in my apartment. Low-level logic, such as turning on ventilation, a washing machine, underfloor heating, closing curtains, controlling the brightness of lighting depending on the time of day, is performed on microcontrollers.
But the high-level logic (voice recognition, images, voice synthesis, information output to TVs, control via the Internet) is installed on a server that I called LEXX.

Answer 24

Since I mostly have Windows structures, it’s roughly like this:
srv-hyperv
srv-rdp
srv-ex
srv-dc1
srv-dc2
srv-fs
and so on.

Answer 25

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot…

Answer 26

when I was an admin, at one time I called servers with words from the world of Lovecraft - arkham, dunwich, ... At another job - the names of animals: eagle, tiger ...

Answer 27

(destination)srv(reincarnation), example - svnsrv002, vpnsrv002. Leading 0 - to catch the eye.

Answer 28

Here's a great set of recommendations .

Answer 29

utkonos1, utkonos2, utkonos3 and so on until complete victory

Answer 30

at the job where exactly I call them - balthazar, melchior.

Answer 31

nicknames of characters from habr

Answer 32

By roles.
TS? - Terminal servers.
DC -
FS Domain Controller(s)? - file servers
And I’ll quote my colleague again:
I once saw a grid of about 120 computers)))) machine names: VODKA, VINO, PIVO, PORTVEYN, KONIAK, then when the names of the booze ran out STAKAN, RUMKA, STOPKA, names the admin apparently ran out of containers, and then OLIVE, ZAKUS, SALO began, and the hit of the season SUHARIKI!!! I fell out!)))
This is an example of an incorrect, albeit original, name :)

Answer 33

mercury
mars
neptun
uran
and so on

Answer 34

There are not so many schemes - common nouns (cities, names, objects), letters, abbreviations.
I named everything according to the cities of the whole world. Similar in functionality and duplicating - by neighboring cities, or cities of the same country. All shared resources are hidden. All that is needed is displayed in DFS. As a result, the purpose of each server is not obvious at first glance, and curious employees will not find anything particularly.
It's annoying when "experienced" system administrators start to come up with something new, bypassing established standards and just literacy. I regularly see all sorts of rubbish on other people's networks:
“PR-” for application servers, the abbreviation “APP”, apparently,
“PR-” is not suitable for shortening the name of printers
“PS-” for personal computer, it’s not even workstation
“DK-” for domain controller
"DATABASA", "DOMEN", "MEIL" - what other incorrect spellings of words will they come up with?

Answer 35

I have different duck domains: duck, quack… And servers by meaning: www, ftp, hg… Or by color: gray, black, green… They say so later, look at the black duck. ;-}

Answer 36

I had the first canada, then alaska went and the third will be chukotka