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Suggestions for Unique Names for a Server Room?

Posted by Cliff on from the for-your-amusement dept.

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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  1. How about "Central Dogma" ? by Peter+Clary · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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...

  2. Re:"Not Invented Here" by WeaponOfChoice · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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...

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  3. Unexpected name by CMiYC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  4. Oddly enough... by devphil · · Score: 3, Interesting


    ...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.

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  5. The Pit? by Karora · · Score: 3, Interesting
    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" :-)

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