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"Hmmm. It's a lot easier to automatically manage boxes named "server001" than a list of random names that constantly has to be maintained." That's true. Howev
by xiaoma 17y ago
"Hmmm. It's a lot easier to automatically manage boxes named "server001" than a list of random names that constantly has to be maintained."
That's true. However, humans do better with names than numbers. Otherwise, DNS wouldn't exist. The real question is who do you want to optimize for?
- msluyter 17y agoI think it's dependent on the situation. I enjoy the charm of machines named "frodo" and whatnot, but when I first arrived at my current company, the totally arbitrary naming conventions was highly confusing because we had three environments (dev/stage/prod) and several databases and other classes of server per environment. Now we have a standardized naming convention with names like "dev-foo01", "stage-bar02", "prod-baz01" etc.. (were foo/bar/baz denote the purpose of the machine) and it's much easier to deal with.
- garnet7 17y agodev servers: gnomes staging: dwarves prod: elves
- whatusername 17y agoSure. But with a DEV_SYD_DB03, UAT_MEL_APP07, PROD_BNE_DB01 kind of scheme, I've got much more information at a glance than you do.
- BerislavLopac 17y ago@garnet7, there are no gnomes in LoTR. ;) Or, actually, there are, but they are actually Elves...