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."

Comments

How about "Central Dogma" ?

[Peter Clary]

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...

Re:"Not Invented Here"

[WeaponOfChoice]

Grey Area is a better choice - you can even keep the nickname "Meatfucker", sure anyone who has used a computer in the last 10 years can relate to that one...

A Server room name

[dWhisper]

Call it: "Obsolete by the time you're done reading this sign"

Triskedekaphobia

[justanyone]

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.

mmmmm, eggs

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Call it The Basket. Then you can refer to the machines as Eggs.

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 /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?

Too Many Secrets

[sig]

How about a sign that says:

SETEC ASTRONOMY

Unexpected name

[CMiYC]

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.

Interchangeable parts.

[lsommerer]

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):

• Authorized Personel Only
• Inner Sanctum
• Pumpkin Patch
• Santa's Workshop

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.

Oddly enough...

[devphil]

...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.

The Pit?

[Karora]

We name all of our servers on a theme, and this works well, in terms of isolating the names of the servers from their function. Our current theme is "philosophers" which can actually go on for a while.

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" :-)

Something completely original

[Engdy]

Why not generate some completely unique names? Instead of using names from some Tolkein or Trek universe, use some random name generator to come up with some funny sounding ones. Just make sure they have lots of syllables, and sit back listening to people pronounce them!