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I like having my servers named things like HQDC01 instead of something like MrSpock or Samantha, but I do know others who prescribe to the Gunnery Sergeant Hart
by Scott_MacGregor 17y ago
I like having my servers named things like HQDC01 instead of something like MrSpock or Samantha, but I do know others who prescribe to the Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Full Metal Jacket) style of server naming--"Tonight, you p*kes will sleep with your servers. You will give your server a girl's name. Because this is the only...etc...".
The HQ is for Headquarters, DC for Domain Controller, 01. HQDS01 for Headquarters Development Server 01, etc... It's an MCSE best practices naming convention to locate and indentify servers.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoYup. And then you are forced to move the physical location of the server to some remote data center. But because your infrastructure is tightly coupled to the specific machine name you can't change it, so now the name is misleading.
- count 17y agoIf your infrastructure cannot handle the move of a machine, you're doing it wrong.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoOf course. But "doing it wrong" is state of the industry in IT/software dev.