Do you manage 12 machines in a closet, 200 EC2 instances, or 1,500 systems in 5 datacenters?
Do you have more than one datacenter in a given city? in a given campus? in a given building?
Do you build systems that serve a single purpose such as a database, or do you run multiple daemons on a single system? How do you take docker/containerization into account?
How often are your sysadmins logging into these systems? Once a week (spell out "production"), or 20 times a day (abbreviate it as "prod")?
Are your systems all owned and operated by you? Do you manage systems for multiple clients in the same datacenter?
Does your team consist entirely of your college roommates you started your company with? Or are you a team of 20 spread out across different time zones and different countries? Will your funny/memorable names be offensive?
This all seems like an exercise in trying to build the The Server Naming Tower of Babel Bikeshed.
Yeah, but most of those are good ideas for a moderately large business that's not managing other people's servers. Especially mnemonic names. Would you rather reference ruby.web or W1L1Z (which is often the kind of cap that people come up with by default).
Do you manage 12 machines in a closet, 200 EC2 instances, or 1,500 systems in 5 datacenters?
Do you have more than one datacenter in a given city? in a given campus? in a given building?
Do you build systems that serve a single purpose such as a database, or do you run multiple daemons on a single system? How do you take docker/containerization into account?
How often are your sysadmins logging into these systems? Once a week (spell out "production"), or 20 times a day (abbreviate it as "prod")?
Are your systems all owned and operated by you? Do you manage systems for multiple clients in the same datacenter?
Does your team consist entirely of your college roommates you started your company with? Or are you a team of 20 spread out across different time zones and different countries? Will your funny/memorable names be offensive?
This all seems like an exercise in trying to build the The Server Naming Tower of Babel Bikeshed.