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Naming scales just fine. It's human conversation that doesn't scale.
If you have dozens or hundreds of servers, then it would be impractical for a human to try to distinguish them individually. Your array of web servers that de/commissions servers on-the-fly can all have numbers or random strings appended- but you should name the array.
(let's just say planets)
mercury-* = database cluster
venus-* = web cluster
earth-* = load balancers
mars = beanstalkd
jupiter = puppet master
That way you can say "Mercury is down" or "Twelve mercury nodes are down" or "Mercury-11 is down"; it applies semantic meaning to your infrastructure at a level human beings can converse about.