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Discussion on: What's your favourite server naming convention?

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Austin S. Hemmelgarn

The place I used to work at had, prior to my starting there, had an interesting hodgepodge of names based mostly on characters from Dilbert (as well as some logical names from mythology). Not long after I started there, that shifted to naming servers after major stars and astronomical objects (Rigel, Polaris, Sirius, Andromeda, etc).

For my personal systems, I use names of spacecraft from Star Wars, mostly stuff from the Rebel Alliance, but also a few smuggler and bounty hunter names, often with there being some practical association between the role of the spacecraft itself and the system named after it (for example, the dedicated BOINC client system I've got running work units primarily from bioinfomatics and medical research projects is named 'redemption' after the EF76 Nebulon B escort frigate that was used as the primary hospital ship for the Rebel Fleet).