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A comment on Hostnames.

Re:Hostnames by nephorider on Sunday October 13, 2013 @04:34AM (#6541908)
I used to go with "theme" name like wine oriented (chardonnay, merlot...) But after a while it gets confusing to remember which machine does what and switch to more "functional" names like "worker01, worker02, db01..."
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Re:Hostnames by kijin on Sunday October 13, 2013 @08:14AM (#6542323)
If you're geeky enough about your theme, you could use theme-based names that are also functional. For example, all the wines are application servers, all the beers are DB servers, etc.
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