Re:Naming Conventions. (Score 2, Funny)

Ever had one of the staff leave or worse die? We had the founder of the company pass away which led to our mail server sending messages with his name in bounced messages. This led to people thinking that messages were coming from a dead guy (I am not joking) which led to a massive renaming of all servers.

We now use elements (hydrogen, lithium, etc) for our servers. If you have thousands of servers then you will need to use longer hostnames with groups as in hydrogen.www.domain.com vs hydrogen.mail.domain.com. Another good choice is colors, red, blue, green, etc...

vanbo