Server Names? What next!

[AWicher]

We are looking for some new server names but we tend to pick a TV or film and get names out of it.

 

i.e

Star Trek - so we have Voyager, Enterprise, DS9

Star Wars - OB1, R2, D2, 3PO

 

and my latest personal favorite - Dune (Running Spiceworks)

 

But with not much going on TV / Film wise we are finding it hard to make a few names up, and we all know a good name makes the server better.

 

So, What have you got? and i will steal them

[andydis]

at home my wireless is called DEATHSTAR, all servers are characters, e.g. luke ,yoda, darthvader, cheewie, hansolo, and pc's / laptops are r2d2, xwing, tieighter, my NAS is tatooine with a share of moseisley. . welcome to steal mine

[glennda]

ours are all female names, it does make members of staff look really confused when you say oh dawns just crash!

[AWicher]

Not only is tatooine a good name, but nice to know I'm not the only one who has a few servers at home (only 5 now), But we cant all be like Ric who i do believe has a server farm in multiple racks

[maniac]

I'm boring here, and have a systematic labelling system e.g SA-DC01 = Spires Academy Domain Controller 01 etc. etc.

[AWicher]

Oh, "favorite" staff names. there a good one. "Oh one min! just need to RE-BOOT "

[soveryapt]

What about Disney characters? lol..

[Rydra]

Battlestar (fictional spaceship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

# Galactica

# Pegasus

# Columbia (two battlestars bearing this name are known to have existed)

# Atlantia

# Triton

# Valkyrie

# Mercury

# Solaria

# Athena

# Yashuman

# Vortex (seen on a report given by Dualla to Gaeta during the attack)

# Uned (seen on a report given by Dualla to Gaeta during the attack)

# Erasmus (seen on a report on Adama's desk when searching for a new CAG)

# Night Flight (seen on a report on Adama's desk when searching for a new CAG)

[maark]

What about Disney characters? lol..

 

thats what my helpdesk person suggested so hers is now bambi :-) - just going over from simpsons to classic singers - aretha, dionne, otis etc

[ChrisH]

Not that I use them but Red Dwarf names would be good.

[K.C.Leblanc]

We used to be local place names,

 

However since we've gone virtual it would get a bit too hard to manage.

 

There's all serv and then a descriptor. E.g. ServDC1, ServPrinting, ServSims,

 

A school I used to work at had servers called Daisy & Buttercup.

[AWicher]

We have just picked HAL, TRON and Skynet as the main Blade OS name!

 

Next would be the virtual servers needing names, oh its hard work this networking admin malarkey

[AWicher]

Not that I use them but Red Dwarf names would be good.

 

We did have Kryten and Kryten2 but they died a dreadful death (Busy, stressful day) so bad memories!

 

as for Buttercup... hmmmm might not use that one, lol.

[Ric_]

Next would be the virtual servers needing names, oh its hard work this networking admin malarkey

 

What's all this DNS nonsense? There's nothing wrong with using the IPv6 addresses

[AWicher]

What's all this DNS nonsense? There's nothing wrong with using the IPv6 addresses

 

Yeeee, ARPANET is the back to future now! lol

[Sarconia]

Back in the old days... when I only had 3 devices which connected to the internet I used to call my PC's Melchior, Balthasar and Caspar - the names of the 3 wise men

 

I still have those floating around although they have been joined by a bunch of random ones recently as my naming convention is failing, my PS3 is blackstormclaw, I've got an old laptop which is known as (rude word here)sandwich and numerous other devices floating round which I can't even remember what they're called.

[webman]

Take your pick.

 

At home I use elements - carbon, neon, titanium, mercury, zinc etc.

[soveryapt]

If you've not got too many (and I realise this is kind of covered in my previous thought) how about the Seven Dwarfs.. Or if you're a fan of Christmas, then Santa's Reindeer..

[sted]

discworld characters? would give you a few to play with

[oalcock]

At my old work, we had Galaxy, Mars (which were originally from the chocolate), then we called the next one Jupiter. I think its better with a more professional approach like we have at my place of work now with basic names (i.e. 1 word brief description of the server "Fileserve" for example).

[soveryapt]

Have The Hobbit and LOTR been suggested yet? I can't remember ..

[AWicher]

CLEO have an interesting naming convention - porkpie, Zuul, Fez, Cap, but to name a very few!

 

But thanx for the ideas folks

[PiqueABoo]

I once got away with: Alice, Bob, Chastity, Des, Eve,..

 

Mini-challenge: One of them is the odd one out (from an Evelyn Waugh novel I'd recently read)

[leco]

My servers, and PCs for that matter are all named from League of Gentlemen. So I have Matthew and Pauline and Babs etc.

[Guest Htech]

Megatron, bumblebee, Ironhide, optimus prime?