Recently Ian Beyer, Network Extraordinaire out @ Church of the Resurrection in Leewood KS and I had an interesting conversation about network topology and the naming convention of servers, routers, switches, and workstations.

We are in the process of bringing on Phase 2 of the VineHosting Data Center, complete with our new R1Soft Bare Metal Restore Servers (another blog post perhaps) and our new Virtual Infrastucture.

Since we now have so many more servers than we did in the past – and we have exhausted all the cities Paul visited in the Bible, the names of the sacraments, etc…  I reached out and asked Ian what they were doing -

He got to joking a bit – saying they used all Dr. Seuss themes @ an old employer (not sure if he meant Sun Microsystems or Sprint…) anyhow – pretty funny stuff.   Imagine that – us having Thing 1 and Thing 2 …

I sat down and had to write up an assignment for my seminary class on the vocabulary of Salvation… and suddenly thought … WOW there it is…

The Servers Host name is Salvation:  its guest machines are:

conversion, substitution, reconciliation, propitiation, remission, imputation, adoption, justification, sanctification,  glorification and regeneration (thats the PXE Booter…)

Our R1Soft Servers are called Preservation and Redemption.

Now If I could only turn this in as an assignment instead of the long term paper… I would be happy as pie.

And of course – I still have all these other servers to do…

I guess I could use a few other examples – imagine getting a welcome email being told your on the purgatory server…

What are you using for a Naming Convention?