The best thought-out server naming conventions I have seen use a coding system designed to tell you where the server is physically located and what it's role is, e.g.
cbd25hris001 makes it weird to read at first, but once you know the coding system you can get a lot of useful information out of it. On Jan 18, 2008 8:17 AM, Jerry J wrote: > I've worked at places where the servers were named after planets in > sci-fi literature, named after submarines, named after famous physics > scientists. Mostly, though, they were generically named "server", > "server2". > > It always bugged me that even when they named the servers with "2", > "3" appended, they never made it truly logical, and made "server1". It > was always server, then server2. Why? > > And they never made a server0 (which is where all lists should start.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:251348 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
