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Suggestions for Unique Names for a Server Room?
clutch110 asks: "I have been tasked with coming up with a name for our soon-to-be server room. Our president is renowned for these small tasks. I was told to create something funny and not nearly as obvious as 'Company Server Room'. So I come in hope that your everlasting humor can help me complete my quest for the most unique server room name in existance."
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"we live in a post-ideological world..." - Billy Bragg.
"the room named on slashdot"
Blinkenroom
Das B00T!
if it's in the basement you can always call it:
Moria
The Ninth Circle
(with individual servers named Faust, Mephisto, Lucifer, Phil, ect...ect...)
If it's a small room, you can just stick a british "Police" sign on the outside (ala Dr. Who).
if you are running really big iron, place a "Welcome to Urbana Illinios" sign on the door. (birth place of H.A.L., S.A.L., et al.)
but if you have a DC fetish (come on we can smell our own here, it's Slashdot) you can choose from christening it the "Fortress of Solitude", "Bat Cave", "OA", or "S.T.A.R. Labs"
BTW someone sugested "the Brothel" LOL, wouldn't be so sure that the suits wouold be happy to roll along with that one.
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I bent my Wookie!
"Off Limits" *shrug*
Pixels keep you awake!
How about you put up a sign called Engineering and have everyone refer to you as Scotty!
Can I get an eye poke?
Dog House Forum
While you're at it, if you've got three large servers you can call them Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, and collectively "The Magi".
And major system problems can henceforth be named/numbered after the Angels. "Uh oh - the Second Angel has attacked."
OK, OK, I've just been watching Neon Genesis Evangelion. I'll go and lie down now...
Hades
I think, therefore thoughts exist. Ego is just an impression.
The Meat Locker.
I don't know about you, but every server room I've been in has been freezing. Whenever I enter a server room for extended periods of time, I make sure I have a coat.
in a comic vein..
"Danger Room"
old movie vein
"Emerald City"
random vein
"There be Monsters"
"Mind the Gap"
"Internet Invented Here"
"Abandon all Hope"
"The Shrine"
"Rear Command Center"
"Jedi Academy"
"Janitors Closet"
I could go all night.. but that would lame, and I need to catch up on my slee.....
ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz.....
When i have kids, I NAME THEM, and not my wife...
The lunatic is in my head
The room of eternal dispair
The "mybosswantedmetocomeupwithanameforthis" Room
The Bathroom
The Transporter Room
The...oh hey look a bunny!
if you are running linux servers
Anarctica
The Penguin Room
If you are running windows servers
The Oh Please God(s) Kill Me Now room
and my personal favorite...
over/down/up there
Famous Last Words: "hmm...wikipedia says it's edible"
soviet russia? it *is* a location, after all. in soviet russia, server... um... serves?... wait... damn! i messed that one up. wheres the delete key...
In the spirt of Peter's Evil Overlord list:
65. If I must have computer systems with publically available terminals, the maps they display of my complex will have a room clearly marked as the Main Control Room. That room will be the Execution Chamber. The actual main control room will be marked as Sewage Overflow Containment.
X(7): A program for managing terminal windows. See also screen(1).
period
404: NotFound
Bah!
You can name up to twenty servers this way, if you want to name the next 17 after the Angels --- Lilith, Adam, Sachiel, Samshel, Ramiel, Gaghiel, Israfel, Sandalphon, Matarael, Sahaquiel, Ireul, Leliel, Bardiel, Zeruel, Arael, Armisael, Tabris
Of course, if you don't like it, you can just start naming computers after Muppets until you get tired. There are a freaking lot of Muppets.ACHTUNG! Alles touristen und non-technischen peepers!
Das machine control is nicht fur gerfinger-poken und mittengrabben. Oderwise is easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowen fuse, und poppencorken mit spitzensparken.
Der machine is diggen by experten only. Is nicht fur geverken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseenen keepen das cotten picken hands in das pockets, so relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights.
Call it: "Obsolete by the time you're done reading this sign"
CowboyNeal
Build a redundant button into the wall, and put a sign above it that says: "Do Not Push!". Then see how many people you can get to push it, and show it at X-Mas parties.
You could always name it "Duke Nukem Forever Game in Progress"... sorry, thinking on the VaporWare thing.
Or how about "1 box to run the webserver, 1 box for the mail, 1 box for the Quake game, 1 box for all the Mp3s = Pretty Good Server Room"
"Enter through other door"
I used to work at UBS Warburg (Swissbank) and they had a meeting room that was titled 'Triskadekaphobia' on the 12th floor.
Triskadekaphobia == Fear of the number 13.
Unitarian Church: Freethinkers Congregate!
Call it The Basket. Then you can refer to the machines as Eggs.
/dev/urandom or whatever that command is, then tack the output on the door. If you wanted to be really creative, you could put up a little LED sign that outputs /dev/urandom. That way your server room will always have a unique name. Everyone will just refer to it as the server room no matter what name you pick, so why not give them a good reason to use the generic term?
You could also call it the Don't Panic room, or the Champagne Room, or the One True Server Room, or the Fruity Pebbles room, or the Room Without A Window, or the Mush Room, or the Big Blue Room (or, alternatively, the Little White/Gray/Whatever Room).
You asked for unique though. Most unique thing I can think of is to cat
If so, feel free to use this one:
"FOR SALE: SLIGHTLY USED"
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
[airport code][descriptive code]
For example: CHIWST, Chicago West datacenter. West could be the part of the city, or the part of the building. Add a number on the end if you're feeling kinky. Or maybe something obvious to the front like "DC".
You won't get slammed if what you end up creating makes some logical sense, though. You could call it "CHARLIE" and name the next datacenter (if there is one) "DELTA".
"my parents went to new york and all I got was this stupid server room"
"Whoville"
"Do Not Enter"
"Cold Storage"
"The Pain Train"
"La La Land"
"Carnage"
"Shangri Lab"
"Room.net"
"Goto 10"
"My bedroom"
"Slashdot people couldn't think of anything really funny so we're calling it The Server Room"
... for all the fantasies that the PHB will want you to create for him?
--jdp Maintainer of VisEmacs
Bit Bucket
...just call it Soviet Russia.
In Soviet Russia, rooms serve YOU!
I will now redundantly add my name to the end of my post. You know, in case you forgot me or something.
How about a sign that says:
SETEC ASTRONOMY
We call ours the Houston room. Even though the joke is very old now, everyone loves to say "Houston, we have a problem!"
Call it "A**hole" cuz that where the company sh** hits the outside world.
Trouble, a mistake or fun, your choice
Then call it "Goatse" Why? Because each server has one big GAPPING hole in it.
A friend of mine would name all the servers different things based on where the serverroom was located geographicly. For instance, if it was in Wisconsin they would name all the computers different cheeses. Then you could call the room the Cheese Shop.
Honestly, there's gotta be better submissions than this.
"What to name my company server room?"
You're fucking shitting me, right?
We could talk about 802.1 wireless networks, Linux distributions, DRM, File Sharing, LCD displays...
ANYTHING
This is just some gay ass faggot shit...
Anyone who names their cars/computers and refers to them by the name, is a fucking loser.
"Kim just crashed"
"I put some more RAM in Frodo"
"I changed the oil in Lisa"
... "Task is not a verb" room?
Soiled Utility Closet
Biohazard Disposal
Radiography
Carivore Den
Depreciated Hardware
OZ
Office Supply
Electron Containment
or... just Office Storage
--Mike--
One of my customers has a lab in an unlikely part of the building. On the door it says "Accounts Receivable." When you walk in, its one of the most validation labs I've ever seen. Instead of a funny name like "Everyone on slashdot complains of not sleeping because they think it makes them sound cool", name it another corporate department.
Oh the irony of asking Slashdot for something unique and original...........
I've always liked the name "Bob"...
... in (a) reference to the fact that only partial bugs remain (milli being 1/1000th), and (b) that's where they all end.
You could've hired me.
When we moved into our new digs, a sign on the server room already read "The Bat Cave". I just had to keep it there. Now we just need a red phone.
Trolls lurk everywhere. Mod them down.
Case in point: we have extra consumer good inventory so I told him to eBay it and use my account. 2 months later he's listed one item and, when asked, complained that the "upload a picture" function "doesn't work." Yeah, I noticed all those missing photos in other people's auctions. Right.
Also, I told him to install an evaluation copy of Exchange (for comparison to other products). 2 weeks later he's unable to download all the service packs. Maybe, I think. 2 weeks later he can't get it to work. I look. Active Directory is set up (correctly--but exactly like the manual suggests) so I ask, "what's the problem?" He says: I can't find where you add the email address in Exchange. So, I ask "isn't that what Active Directory is for?" Answer: "wha?"
So, I now give him the tasks like "name the server" and "pick the place for lunch."
Pit of Despair.
What else can you call it when you're told to come up with a non-obvious name for something that needs a real name.
Runner up: Sisyphus.
I've always been partial to the Neuromancer universe. Call the room "Villa Straylight", and the main sever "Wintermute". Then get your job title changed to "Chief of Turing Police".
Instead of putting a fixed nameplate on the door to the server room at the high school where I work, we mounted the kind that you can slide plates in and out of. The plan is to accumulate different plates over time and rotate between them.
Here are the ones that we've used so far (It's only been a few months):
Other suggestions are welcome (I plan to steal liberally from those already posted).
It also seemed like a good idea at the time to inscribe, "Hey! Put that back" on the front (covered) side of the faceplate holder.
... and use the proceeds to buy a new coffee pot or better coffee for the old coffee pot or something...
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
'Serious' one: "Colossus World Control Headquarters" (or something very close to this, I haven't seen the movie in a while.)
Funny one: "Home of the WOPR"
~Philly
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
...name it KOOPAMANDOOKAM - frog in a well.
Tat Tvam Asi
well you could:
slap a handicap unisex restroon sign on the door
(especially good if there's a step up/down to it)
or put a "danger: high voltage" sign there.
name it after the local ballpark that way you can tell the boss he doesn't have to get tickets to go to (name of local ballpark) anymore.. and he can get more work done that way....
Ages ago I worked with someone who (with malace aforethought) got everyone to refer to the small room where we delt with all the network/phone interconnects as "the Wiring Closet", and then started shortening it to "the W. C." in memos, and finally (once everyone was numbed to it) put a sign on the door with just the letters "WC".
And then he waited waited...
--MarkusQ
You could call it the North Pole and name your
servers after Santa and the reindeer.
All generalizations are false, including this one. Mark Twain
Call it Hell.
Then you can tell your boss, "If you want it fixed, go to Hell!"
-- Andy
You know how many restrooms have the icon for "men" and "women"? How about such a sign for "propeller-heads", after the old geek trend of wearing the propeller-beanie?
This sig no verb.
Try Area 51 . Or maybe The Black Crypt , or something in that vein. After all, lots of strange things not from this world happen in machine rooms. Trust me...
Xenu brings order!
Well, if you're partial to Heinlein's "Number of the Beast" universe(s), Boondock would do nicely. This also gives you a large pool of potential server names...
I named a test lab 'companyname Proving Ground' once. That could work for a server room also...
I also named all the machines and user accounts (used for testing) after famous disasters, e.g. hindenberg, pinto, bush, etc.
Full disclosure: I didn't come up with the name myself; thanks Baba.
... The magic voodoo box room.
How ya like dat?
No manual entry for server room
server room: nothing appropriate
Nobudy Cumz In Heer.
That's Bigboo TAY! TAY!
BatCave
Geek Cave
The Hole
Money Pit
DigiHouse
you could call it :
X forward...
Room 101
(Everyone knows what's in Room 101)
I call mine..."The Server Room"
nad name all your machines "alien ship 0001", so that way you can have aliens crashing at roswell.
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
/dev/null
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
reading:
"This is not an exit..."
Have everyone refer to you as "Patrick" or "Mr. Bateman".
I know I have seen this question asked before on Slashdot. I just can't find it.
The above is not worth reading.
is that anyone with a little social engineering can get a lead on what 'theme' you are using to name the boxen in that room. One place I worked had a complete Beatles theme going on; including some database passwords being obscure Beatles references like "28 if". The wallpapers on all of them were sketches of the band.
Yet another place used X-Files - hundreds of names and references and insider jokes I couldn't even figure out with my wife being the X-Files nutjob she is...
In a Coast Guard facility I worked in all the printers were named after Lord of the Rings characters - that's right we attached to Legolas to print our Remedy ARS reports.
My favorite has always been the name for a PBX/Server room at a national training facility I once worked in: The Batcave. Fortunately, nothing else inside was named after the comic - could you imagine the Nortel Meridian console being named "Joker"?
I think with the interesting people, their lives can't possibly be wrapped up into a nice little package.
One room to rule them all, One room to find them, One room to bring them all, and in the Darkness bind them. Bonus points: Name the servers after the members of the Fellowship. (You just crashed Frodo! ARGHHH!)
I recognize people by their sigs. Is that a bad thing?
Skynet
That was the ultra computer in Terminator, then of course you have a good selection of names Sara, John, T1000, Arnold, Connor, Terminator, T2, T3 what have you.
Of course, everyone will have to say "I'll be back" when they leave.
::.. check out some Cell Phone Reviews
I would recommend the name "Mongolia" http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory .cfm?Story_ID=1487499"
Due to all the migration that will be going on in there. And the low temperatures... Plus the interesting division of the land in a country where all property is collectively owned is somewhat reminiscent of the loose assignation of disk space and permissions in a network.
"As Mr Sneath says:
The territory of the hoshuu generally contained a number of different areas of pasture used in winter, spring, summer and autumn. These seasonal pastures were divided between various sums and bags, and within these areas the individual households had customary use-rights to particular pastures. In effect this meant that each family owned no land as such but had a recognised area of pasture that it used in the different seasons, and of these the rights to the exclusive use of winter pasture (ovoljoo) tended to be the most strictly enforced."
...the college of engineering at my old university did something similar with the isolated subnets.
There'd be a bunch of machines, called bilbo, frodo, gandalf, etc, on a net of their own, and diamond, ruby, emerald, etc, on a net of their own. For each net, another machine with two network cards would be their bridge to the outside world. Each of the network cards had its own name -- and this is where the geekiness comes out -- and the names would be for the same thing.
So one card on the bridge would be rivendell, and the other would be imladris. One card would be gem and the other jewel. Things like that. One of the sysadmins had never read Tolkien, and the network topology of room 355 always confused him until someone explained the names.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Epicak
Black Moon
Showers
(If you want to keep the programmers out)
"Coprate Policy
Training Center"
"Non Disclosure
Training Center"
Or Perhaps name it after a legacy product or system:
IMP
B-6800, B-7700
PDP-1, PDP-8, PDP-11
Darpanet
Translation courtesy of the Fish (just in case ):
NOTE! All tourist and non technical peepers! The machine control is not fur gerfinger poken and mittengrabben. Oderwise is easy snatch that jumping work, blowen fuse, and poppencorken with sharpen-park. The machine is by experts diggen only. Is fur do not geverken by the dummkopfen. Rubbernecken sightseenen keepen the that cotten picken hands in pockets, then relaxen and watchen blinkenlights.
so i say you name it MECHANICAL ROOM
and while it may not be funny to anyone else, you can always remember that maybe, just maybe, its a room that can change into something else...kind of like a transformer or something...
i dunno...
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apostrophes...right...
Nope. never mind. that's lame.
I always name my computers girls names like sarah, gina, etc
BSOD
static electricity
gertrude
KABOOM!
natasha the crack whore
comdemened
your name here
my other server is a flux capictor
yeah thats about as creative as i can be
Washington DC has a combined sewer system. Basically, this means that there are not seperate sanitary (ie, toilets) and storm sewers. When there hasn't been rain in a while, leaves and other assorted trash will collect up in the storm sewers. When a hard rain comes, it will back up the storm sewers, and there's always a questions of exactly what else might have floated up from the drains.
Our machine room just happens to be in a basement. [Until a couple of years back, there was a glass wall to the outside, too, so it obviously wasn't well planned] I think it was late 2000 (maybe early 2001), when we had a sewer backup on the same block our building was. There was an inch or so of standing water on the ground floor. There was sewage leaking from the ceiling above into our machine room, onto the machines, and into flooring [raised floor, so of course, all of the power runs through the floor].
Needless to say, the smell was not so wonderful, although anything chunky was filtered out by the seeping through the concrete floor/ceiling. It did manage to cause the ceiling tiles in the machine room to crumble, and they had to replace anything that couldn't be easily disinfected in another room on that floor (chairs, cubicle walls, etc).
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
If you're feeling very generous to crackers, you could name it The Flag. I guarantee that script-kiddies who see a real-life opportunity to capture The Flag would wet their pants.
Or you could name it after Viking appliances, some of the best ranges and stoves in the world.
Ok, I thought it was funny.
You zap the moderators with a wand of humor! The moderators resist!
"Are you being serverd?"
-- botsex is {grep;touch;strip;unzip;head;mount}
Your company probably depends on the servers for its business.
The servers are obviously hard-working machines which do their job without complaining.
The answer to your question is obvious: the servers deserve to live in Heaven.
...and make sure the hellsword CLUEBRINGER is prominently displayed. Then name the three main servers arioch, xiombarg, and mabelode.
The Boudoir [sp?]
The Bronx
Somewhere Else
The Operating Room
The Swamp (ala M*A*S*H)
Check Point Charlie (ah the days of the Cold War)
Cryogenic Storage/The Fridge
MIR
Detroit
The Bunker
38 North Yankee (Ah the Korean War)
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Chernobyl/Three Mile Island
The Playground
The Gulag
Angband
Compton
Malkovich
Birdland
The Mother Ship
The Dark TOwer
Heritcorp
Columbia Internet
The Dimension of Pain
Olympus/Kilamanjaro/Denali/K2/Everest
The Satellight odf Love
Paris
Istanbul (not Constantinople)
Dien Bien Phu/Dak Tow/Da Nang...
Iwo Jima/Pearl Harbor/Midway...
Dover, Delaware
Epicenter
The Brain
Nirvana
Yggdrasil/Asgard/Midgard/Bifrost
Kalevala/Pohjola (Lets hear it for Deities and Demigods)
Lankhmar/Newhom
Camelot
The Citidel
The Nucleus
THe Moon
The Core
IT
Oakland
The Conservatory (With the Candlestick)
These are climbs in Yosemite:
Wyoming Sheep Ranch
Zodiac
The Nose
Salathe
Central Pillar of Frenzy
Serenity Crack
Open Source Identity Management: FreeIPA.org
Call it Mordor.
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
Milliways, the restraunt at the end of the universe
~corporate tool, but employed~
Well, we don't have a name for our server room, but our JumpStart server is named Frostbitefalls. (Because it's so f'n cold in there!)
...
Being that it jumpstarts hosts on a zillion subnets, it has other IP's (and DNS entries as appropriate, such as):
Boris
Natasha
Sherman
Peabody
Bullwinkle
and, of course:
Flying-Squirrel (since rocky was already taken by the west-coast guys... they have a stallone theme goin' on)
The TSM backup server is named wayback. Heh. I thought it was appropriate
After all, it worked for some guy with a bunch of punched cards :-)
You call it the radio shack, i'm going to kill you... :p
I dont care if you are 802.11a/b/c/, you DONT call it the radio shack...
It brings back bad memories... :
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
also:
Just some thoughts . . .
Chivalry is not dead, it's just frequently misspelt. - M. Langley
I can't be the only one to have thought of either "The Bridge" or "Ten Forward."
And name the servers "Anthem," "Atlas_Shrugged," "Fountainhead," and so on?
If you pick a theme for your server names at the same time, the name for the server room can be quite straightforward. Name them after fish and a roomful becomes a school. Name 'em after birds and it becomes a flock. There are lots of collective nouns out there just waiting to be used.
So my suggestion would be to name them after orchestra instruments, so you could justify calling the place "The Pit" :-)
How about -
Heaven.
-"Your name, Bastard Operator From Hell". Done up exactly like the signs on executive offices.
-If two doors, label one "Garbage in" and the other "Garbage out"
-"This is a dump for salvage equipment". (Taken after sign at local university's computer repairs office, where they specifically deny a space being a dump for salvage equipment after years of it piling up there)
-Take the bathroom idea said before, but add a small handwritten sign that says "Enjoy the new low-water-use fixtures"
-"Beware of the Panther" -- wasn't that the sign in HHGG?
-Find a room name that outsiders might be invited to. A meeting room, the board room, the room where training sessions or the stockholder meeting occurs. Name the server room identical to that, or confusingly similar to that.
-On a similar principle, Room 226. Unless the room is originally numbered 226, in which case, call it Room 347. Bonus points if you give it the same number as the cafeteria, the bathroom, or some place you can otherwise waste time.
It's just like a fascist dictatorship, without the punctual rail service!
Room 42
Put some serious HSS in there (Hidden Sound System), and relive memorably moments from THGTTG.
By the way.
Busses stop at the busstation.
Trains stop at the trainstation.
Then logically:
Work stops at the workstation.
according to anohter post of him :
NIS lookups (Score:1)
by clutch110 (528473) Alter Relationship on Thu 12 Dec 08:33PM (#4873590)
I found out that our NIS server was giving those exact results. We had NIS clients on all Windows machines and of course all unix/Linux machines were nis too.
my vote is for neil and bob
Or just call it server room 2 (if you have only 1).
But this may be too common.
Any company that tasks a worker with coming up with a unique name for the server room clearly belongs in my fuckedcompany deadpool.
Sensory Deprivation Tank?
"the zoo"
the caged animals that you have to feed and lavish attention on every so often... after a while you just end up kicking them!
Sign should read: Room 42 Deep Thought (beware of falling whales)
Middle Earth? You would have an almost infinite supply of names for all of the servers and workstations! If not, then I'm sticking with the Brothel, that one rocks. Other Suggestions: Late 90's "server.room" Classic "dino.pen" Microsoft "pearly.gates" slashdot "cowboy.neal"
How about for the sign "Here there be trolls"
then for the servers:
- hotgrits
- portman
- sovietrussia
- firstpost
- osxrules
Engineering.
I don't do this for karma, I do it for cash. It's much better.
then call it "the bedroom".. that's were you'll wish you'd be :)
- I choked on the red pill and now I'm stuck in limbo
At Uni the room where all our Sun machine were was called The Solarium
Or if your server room is gonna be housing M$ servers I think Room 101 would be quite appropriate!
Do you lots of glass walls....then I would suggest for you...!
The fishbowl!
Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
The zoo was our name of one defunct companies server room.. The machines were beasts and a mix of os (linux/ms/sun). The machines were also given animal names.. It was nice and not too geeky.
We have all of our servers named after evil or "gone crazy" computers. They all have names like WOPR (War Games), HAL9000, Johnny5 (Short Circuit), Lore (ST Next Gen.), etc.
I guess we could name our server room something like "Bit Hell" - where all of the bad computers go when they die.
Oh yeah, and they all run NT, so the nomenclature is even more fitting.
user@host:/usr/bin$ whatis
java: nothing appropriate.
I tend to arrive at companies when they are transitioning from "small" companies with a cool culture to corporate culture.
At the last place that I worked, we had a really cool descriptive naming scheme that was funny and very descriptive of where the computers were. The one day the CEO decreed that we would use naming codes... database servers would be renamed db01 db02 db03... web www01 www02.
Where I am now (a very large environment) hostnames are 9-12 characters long. There is actually a spreadsheet to name a server! You get gobblygood names like oapapa1234a1p, because every character needs to mean something. (That example would be an powerpc aix server running oracle in production with redundant power in production)
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
Our servers have a dr. seuss theme. One fish, two fish, red fisl, blue fish and the like. The list of names are endless. They thought of using all anime characters but some of the names are a pain to spell
Put a placard on the door reading, "Manhatten Project", after the nuclear weapons programme, and name the servers after nuclear weapons, which could be descriptive, too. Fat man, little boy, then newer weapons: Trident, etc. Or, go total geek and name them after Quake III characters. Lucy, Sarge, Doom, Xaero, etc. There should be plenty of them to work with.
If all my base are belong to you and I attempt to retrieve my base, does that mean I'm freebasing?
Our computer lab was called cellblock.
We spent somuch time there it was like prison.
That would work for a server room also.
Siggy Wiggy Figgy Tiggy a bana bo Biggy!
EOM
-- www.globaltics.net
Political discussion for a new world
No... it should be called 'Central Dogma' with the cluster named 'MAGI' and the individual nodes as Melchior, Balthazar... etc...
Maxim: People cannot follow directions.
Increases in truth directly with the length of time spent explaining them
"Abandon All hope ye who enter here."
"Bit Bucket"
(if a MS shop) "Cost Center"
"Lost and Found" (everyone loses data, it must be in here somewhere)
"BYTE ZONE"
"BOFH - Residence"
"BOFH is IN/OUT"
"Restricted Area: Access prohibited: Authorized Persons only: To request access please fill out form DoD/MIL/SUB/9834934521.7A (rev. F) and submit though your Dept head. Please allow 365 days for approval."
In Soviet Russia... the name of the server room is classified.
the CIA filing room?
Do a Google search for some of the famous European salt mines, and pick a name you like.
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
Kids name YOU!
Not only that, but they worked in a mine, so this theme could be replicated.
Now, if there is a Snow White, or a wicked witch of the West.....
OS/2 - because choice is a terrible thing to waste.
Nobody (At least I didn't see it) came up with the oldie-but-goodie:
Terminal Ward.
I have a second sig, I call it sig#2.
I didn't know that the Fish had a setting for Kommander Klink!
I've seen the Seven Dwarves naming scheme done once, but in my opinion it's not that scalable. (well, I guess it doesn't really need to be unless you run a datacenter) Besides that, a $10,000 box deserves a name better than "Dopey".
I've seen a lot of suggestions in this thread to include server names with spaces, but in my opionion putting spaces in server/workstation names is a cardinal sin, particularly when you have to reference the computer when messing with a CGI script or writing a program that depends on the name...I've gotten myself in to some big trouble with spaces in server names.
So, I name my boxen after characters from Greek myths. I like to name the servers loosely after the function they and the character would perform. For instance, Cerberus, the three headed dog that guards the entrance to Hades, could be my firewall. Hermes, the messenger of the gods, could be an SMTP/POP3 server. Athena, the goddess of wisdom, could be an SQL server or data repository. Sisyphus, the king who was punished by forever having to roll a rock up a hill, only to have it slip from his grasp just before he got it to the top, could be a test or debugging system.
And so it goes on, dozens to choose from, no annoying spaces, and cool names!
-R
Name it after a historic event, a place in a well-known book, or perhaps even something from a movie.
Suggests:
The Matrix: Almost anybody gets that one
NeverNever Land: For MS machines, because that's where data goes too in some cases...
Tarterus (sp?): Depends on how much you like your job.
Might also depend on what you name your servers, or what you plan to name them. You could have a theme place from a book, and name your servers after the characters.
Which reminds me, I was going to ask a very similar question... as to what cool names people have heard for servers. We have ours named after Political Figures and trees here. I have the first server of my own being built and was thinking of naming it after a celestial body, or perhaps a galaxy
....if it exist, no one really knows whats inside? so, why not call it Area 51?
My home naming scheme is really the only one of interest. What's better than naming your boxes after a prostitution business? The firewall is called pimp, because it protects the internal lan boxes (whores). Coincidentally these are named after my ex-girlfriends. A web server in the DMZ is named thug, because it takes case of the outside world.
Of course, this leads to great amusement when they crash, "Dawn went down again!!"
Not exactly good for a work area though
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I've heard many stories about the server farm that NeXT used to have in their Redwood City, California office. Their "Bat Cave" was a small room packed full of black NeXT cubes and slabs. It's been rumored that much of the NeXT server farm still exists at Apple, as does a collection of every NeXT model and OS version on display for testing and "research".
as mentioned in a previous comment, NeXT computer (founded by Steve Jobs, now owned by Apple) named their server room the Bat Cave as well. Mostly because it was filled to the brim with black NeXT cubes and NeXTstations.
The Dimention of Pain!
Voodoo Majiks
Level: Unforseen Consequences
No shirt, No service.
Up 24/365
Bob's Office
Of course, you can't beat the internal memos that go something like Yesterday, Destro crashed at around noon. Xamot and SgtSlaughter were brought online to compensate, and Duke is our hot standby for the moment
Server Room or Computer Room. SHEESH! I do like neat names and stuff but what does a name have to do with how it works? Why do you have to come up with a neat name for it? Why can't you just call it what it is?
Gorkman
I'd recommend the adoption of the telecommunications standard of CLLI(tm) (COMMON LANGUAGE® Location Codes)
More information on CLLI(tm) can be found at Common Language Products.
I wouldn't advise actually paying to register the codes, but I would follow the guidelines, they've worked for a long long time in the organization of the worlds largest network.
1). Hell
2). Tangle Closet
3). Freezer
4). Ice Box
5). Eternal Headache
The menagerie
The glade
The Barracks
The kitchen
The coal room
The reactor
The X-Files HQ
Arachnoids in a box
The altar
The walk-in closet
Bag-end
The LAN (party) center
The message tube room (a la Grim Fandango)
The armoury
My weekday apartment
You asked for help here on Slashdot, lets face it, if you get name suggestions here they will no longer be unique. Though they may still be cool.
Regards,
Ryan Pritchard
Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies
How about the "Futility Closet"?