Joined September 2013
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Bazyli Brzóska

Prague, Czech Republic
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Posted to How to name your servers over 1 year ago

@hrabbit Totally agree! For a couple of years we were running servers in 3 datacentres based on names from The Simpsons, another one on Star Trek characters, and another one on Star Wars characters.
While it's really cool to do so, and you can make some nice associations to remember that the XMPP server is "Jabba" (from Jabba the Hutt) or that "Uhura" is the mail server, in the end we just kept scrathing one's head to remember - what the hell is that server responsible for, for the less obvious ones. The number of servers has grown and we're slowly switching to naming based on function and project codename. Likewise, we never re-use servers (full reinstall if a need arises), so there's never a renaming problem. We moved from OpenVZ to LXC for service isolation.

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