I've been using LoadingReadyRun's Installation Anxiety sketch[0] as a guide to name computers around my house. I originally had a file server, so I named it toilet, then I had a web server named gram, and named my router dishwasher. I recently started a job where I get to run iventoy[1], so the computer it's running on is paul.
my first tech job was doing datacenter monkeywork and phone support for a small-town ISP. a lot of our older machines predated the "function-number" naming scheme (db01.foobar.net, web03.foobar.net etc) and instead were named after various Middle Earth locales. edge routers took regional names, firewalls usually took mountain names, web/file servers were named after big structures/cities etc. took me forever to learn (since i'd only read the books once at that point) but i've carried it with me for personal machine/local network naming ever since.
i like descriptive cattle names for machines i support professionally but home stuff gets to stay fun :)
I've been using LoadingReadyRun's Installation Anxiety sketch[0] as a guide to name computers around my house. I originally had a file server, so I named it toilet, then I had a web server named gram, and named my router dishwasher. I recently started a job where I get to run iventoy[1], so the computer it's running on is paul.
[0] https://wiki.loadingreadyrun.com/index.php/Installation_Anxi...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ajW2fDy41fY
[1] https://www.iventoy.com/
my first tech job was doing datacenter monkeywork and phone support for a small-town ISP. a lot of our older machines predated the "function-number" naming scheme (db01.foobar.net, web03.foobar.net etc) and instead were named after various Middle Earth locales. edge routers took regional names, firewalls usually took mountain names, web/file servers were named after big structures/cities etc. took me forever to learn (since i'd only read the books once at that point) but i've carried it with me for personal machine/local network naming ever since.
i like descriptive cattle names for machines i support professionally but home stuff gets to stay fun :)