{"id":172,"date":"2005-04-14T19:15:56","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T19:15:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-04-14T19:15:56","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T19:15:56","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Suggestions for server names requested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are moving to new premises in June.  We are starting to set up the new network and will be buying some new servers.  One of the most important things about a server is its name, so I thought I&#8217;d ask around for some suggestions for naming these new servers.  Unlike some system admins who like using a naming &#8216;theme&#8217; for all their servers (homer, marge, bart, lisa etc.; or gandalf, frodo, sam, aragorn etc.), I prefer using names which are tied to the purpose of the server, although mystical or astronomical references are also liked.<\/p>\n<p>We need to name:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Firewall server<\/b>: a name which suggests a security guard or a bouncer might be appropriate here;<\/li>\n<li><b>Email server<\/b>: something relating to the real-world delivery of messages or post, perhaps.  <b>Update 19:35<\/b>: Mercury is the &#8220;Messenger of the Gods&#8221;, an excellent name for an email server, but unfortunately we already have a fax server of this name;<\/li>\n<li><b>DHCP\/DNS\/VMPS server<\/b>: the role of this server is harder to make a real-world analogy with.  This server is responsible for the low-level, but critically important, admin and house-keeping on the network, also responsible for identifying which machines on the local network are &#8216;friendly&#8217; and which are &#8216;alien&#8217;;<\/li>\n<li><b>Analysis server<\/b>: this server will be used by our scientists to run statistical analyses and to write data-crunching programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All suggestions encouraged.  I&#8217;m hoping for plenty of comments here, so I&#8217;ve switched off comment moderation for a few hours &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are moving to new premises in June. We are starting to set up the new network and will be buying some new servers. One of the most important things about a server is its name, so I thought I&#8217;d ask around for some suggestions for naming these new servers. Unlike some system admins who&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=172\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}