Ask HN: How do you name your servers?

Unfortunately, I am at the mercy of our IT in server naming, and they come up with the weirdest names, e.g. my machine is called ganada.

A good approach I've heard would be to use Google Sets: enter a few terms and see if you have enough consistent names to support your future server needs.

We usually name our stuff with the following very boring format:

[Server Role]-[#][d/t/p]

On the plus side its easy to maintain, easy to remember, and easy to explain to new hires.

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