Suggestions for Unique Names for a Server Room? 240
clutch110 asks: "I have been tasked with coming up with a name for our soon-to-be server room. Our president is renowned for these small tasks. I was told to create something funny and not nearly as obvious as 'Company Server Room'. So I come in hope that your everlasting humor can help me complete my quest for the most unique server room name in existance."
Are the MS servers (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Are the MS servers (Score:2)
Re:Are the MS servers (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Are the MS servers (Score:2)
Name it... (Score:4, Funny)
Name it.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Name it.... (Score:2, Funny)
it depends... (Score:4, Funny)
Moria
The Ninth Circle
(with individual servers named Faust, Mephisto, Lucifer, Phil, ect...ect...)
If it's a small room, you can just stick a british "Police" sign on the outside (ala Dr. Who).
if you are running really big iron, place a "Welcome to Urbana Illinios" sign on the door. (birth place of H.A.L., S.A.L., et al.)
but if you have a DC fetish (come on we can smell our own here, it's Slashdot) you can choose from christening it the "Fortress of Solitude", "Bat Cave", "OA", or "S.T.A.R. Labs"
BTW someone sugested "the Brothel" LOL, wouldn't be so sure that the suits wouold be happy to roll along with that one.
--
I bent my Wookie!
Re:it depends... (Score:1)
Maybe not, but extend it a littler further with:
The Bunny Ranch
The Mustang Ranch
Miss Mona's Place (aka, The Chicken Ranch)
Re:it depends... (Score:2)
Depends on your servers.... (Score:5, Funny)
Oddly enough... (Score:3, Interesting)
...the college of engineering at my old university did something similar with the isolated subnets.
There'd be a bunch of machines, called bilbo, frodo, gandalf, etc, on a net of their own, and diamond, ruby, emerald, etc, on a net of their own. For each net, another machine with two network cards would be their bridge to the outside world. Each of the network cards had its own name -- and this is where the geekiness comes out -- and the names would be for the same thing.
So one card on the bridge would be rivendell, and the other would be imladris. One card would be gem and the other jewel. Things like that. One of the sysadmins had never read Tolkien, and the network topology of room 355 always confused him until someone explained the names.
it is a mix.... (Score:2)
NIS lookups (Score:1)
by clutch110 (528473) Alter Relationship on Thu 12 Dec 08:33PM (#4873590)
I found out that our NIS server was giving those exact results. We had NIS clients on all Windows machines and of course all unix/Linux machines were nis too.
my vote is for neil and bob [slashdot.org]
Or just call it server room 2 (if you have only 1).
Re:it depends... (Score:4, Funny)
call it "Springfield"
call your servers Homer, Bart, Lisa, etc...
just like every other sysadmin/simpsons freak out there.... hehe.
Re:it depends... (Score:5, Funny)
With enough unnecessary drooping wires, flat panel displays, and strategically placed green cold cathode lamps, you could easily call it "The Nebuchadnezzar (or The Core thereof)" and the office would be called The City of Zion. The same decor would work for a Borg Cube theme, and all the "message from the sysadmin" letters would start with "We Are The Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
I always wanted to do that. "Umm, my computer is broken, I can't do my work..." "YOUR COMPUTER IS IRRELEVANT. WORK IS IRRELEVANT. YOU WILL SURRENDER...Oh, sorry, permissions were set wrong, you should be ok now."
The Real [NeXT] Bat Cave (Score:2)
How about... (Score:1, Insightful)
I Got one! (Score:5, Funny)
How about "Central Dogma" ? (Score:4, Interesting)
And major system problems can henceforth be named/numbered after the Angels. "Uh oh - the Second Angel has attacked."
OK, OK, I've just been watching Neon Genesis Evangelion. I'll go and lie down now...
No, no - I like the idea - (Score:1)
You can name up to twenty servers this way, if you want to name the next 17 after the Angels [aublue.com] --- Lilith, Adam, Sachiel, Samshel, Ramiel, Gaghiel, Israfel, Sandalphon, Matarael, Sahaquiel, Ireul, Leliel, Bardiel, Zeruel, Arael, Armisael, Tabris
Of course, if you don't like it, you can just start naming computers after Muppets until you get tired. There are a freaking lot [muppets.com] of Muppets.Re:No, no - I like the idea - (Score:1)
Re:How about "Central Dogma" ? (Score:2)
Re:How about "Central Dogma" ? (Score:2, Funny)
Terminal Dogma.
Steve
"Not Invented Here" (Score:2)
Re:"Not Invented Here" (Score:4, Interesting)
Call it... (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't know about you, but every server room I've been in has been freezing. Whenever I enter a server room for extended periods of time, I make sure I have a coat.
Re:Call it... (Score:2)
Oh and they just built this room like 6 months ago, so it has 3 industral air conditioning units....
here is my suggestions... (Score:2)
in a comic vein..
"Danger Room"
old movie vein
"Emerald City"
random vein
"There be Monsters"
"Mind the Gap"
"Internet Invented Here"
"Abandon all Hope"
"The Shrine"
"Rear Command Center"
"Jedi Academy"
"Janitors Closet"
I could go all night.. but that would lame, and I need to catch up on my slee.....
ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz.....
Kids (Score:1)
Re:Kids (Score:5, Funny)
a few random suggestions (Score:2, Informative)
The room of eternal dispair
The "mybosswantedmetocomeupwithanameforthis" Room
The Bathroom
The Transporter Room
The...oh hey look a bunny!
if you are running linux servers
Anarctica
The Penguin Room
If you are running windows servers
The Oh Please God(s) Kill Me Now room
and my personal favorite...
over/down/up there
um... (Score:1)
sewage overflow containment (Score:2)
65. If I must have computer systems with publically available terminals, the maps they display of my complex will have a room clearly marked as the Main Control Room. That room will be the Execution Chamber. The actual main control room will be marked as Sewage Overflow Containment.
That is NOT funny. (Score:5, Funny)
Our machine room just happens to be in a basement. [Until a couple of years back, there was a glass wall to the outside, too, so it obviously wasn't well planned] I think it was late 2000 (maybe early 2001), when we had a sewer backup on the same block our building was. There was an inch or so of standing water on the ground floor. There was sewage leaking from the ceiling above into our machine room, onto the machines, and into flooring [raised floor, so of course, all of the power runs through the floor].
Needless to say, the smell was not so wonderful, although anything chunky was filtered out by the seeping through the concrete floor/ceiling. It did manage to cause the ceiling tiles in the machine room to crumble, and they had to replace anything that couldn't be easily disinfected in another room on that floor (chairs, cubicle walls, etc).
thought (Score:5, Funny)
Re:thought (Score:2)
Das Blinkenlights? Spitzensparken? (Score:5, Funny)
Das machine control is nicht fur gerfinger-poken und mittengrabben. Oderwise is easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowen fuse, und poppencorken mit spitzensparken.
Der machine is diggen by experten only. Is nicht fur geverken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseenen keepen das cotten picken hands in das pockets, so relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights.
A Server room name (Score:2, Interesting)
I know (Score:1)
Or Better Yet... (Score:1)
You could always name it "Duke Nukem Forever Game in Progress"... sorry, thinking on the VaporWare thing.
Or how about "1 box to run the webserver, 1 box for the mail, 1 box for the Quake game, 1 box for all the Mp3s = Pretty Good Server Room"
Re:Or Better Yet... (Score:2)
Does anyone remember 'the really big button that doesn't do anything' web page? That was hilarious.
Anyway, if it's Linux, call it Anchorage, then put some cool arctic style posters up with penquins along the shoreline. We had a room call Bedrock once. The main server was called Wilma, other nicknames Barney, Fred and a little mac mail server was called Pebbles. I'm into simple names now, like 'The Hub'. Sort of like 'the pub' because everyone comes in to hang out, but there's no booze.
my favorite (Score:1, Funny)
Triskedekaphobia (Score:2, Interesting)
Triskadekaphobia == Fear of the number 13.
mmmmm, eggs (Score:2, Interesting)
You could also call it the Don't Panic room, or the Champagne Room, or the One True Server Room, or the Fruity Pebbles room, or the Room Without A Window, or the Mush Room, or the Big Blue Room (or, alternatively, the Little White/Gray/Whatever Room).
You asked for unique though. Most unique thing I can think of is to cat
Re:mmmmm, eggs (Score:2)
Hold it, don't take this dudes advice, that's how I managed to end up with a machine named 6962abc6-fc2b-453c-9558-e0764a99cef2
Are you working for a dotcom? (Score:4, Funny)
"FOR SALE: SLIGHTLY USED"
- A.P.
Okay. I'll bite. (Score:3, Insightful)
For example: CHIWST, Chicago West datacenter. West could be the part of the city, or the part of the building. Add a number on the end if you're feeling kinky. Or maybe something obvious to the front like "DC".
You won't get slammed if what you end up creating makes some logical sense, though. You could call it "CHARLIE" and name the next datacenter (if there is one) "DELTA".
The Holodeck... (Score:2, Funny)
chine ruum (Score:2)
Bit Bucket
Too Many Secrets (Score:2, Interesting)
SETEC ASTRONOMY
Names (Score:2, Funny)
Are they Microsoft servers (Score:2)
How about calling it the... (Score:2)
Re:How about calling it the... (Score:2)
tr.v. tasked, tasking, tasks 1. To assign a task to or impose a task on. 2. To overburden with labor; tax.
Another entry at dictionary.com even gives an example sentence:
v 1: assign a task to; "I tasked him with looking after the children"
So it is in fact correct to use "task" as a verb. (Now if you want to get really nitpicky, one might argue that it would be more correct to say "My boss tasked me...", since task seems to refer to the process of assigning a task, not receiving a task.)
Re:How about calling it the... (Score:2)
Names (Score:2)
Soiled Utility Closet
Biohazard Disposal
Radiography
Carivore Den
Depreciated Hardware
OZ
Office Supply
Electron Containment
or... just Office Storage
--Mike--
Unexpected name (Score:3, Interesting)
Ironic (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: (Score:2)
Call it Bob. (Score:2)
Re:Call it Bob. (Score:2)
Re:Call it Bob. (Score:2)
er, Millibugs (Score:2)
Bat Cave (Score:2)
NeXT Bat Cave (Score:2)
P.O.D. (Score:2)
What else can you call it when you're told to come up with a non-obvious name for something that needs a real name.
Runner up: Sisyphus.
Gibsonesque (Score:2)
Interchangeable parts. (Score:2, Interesting)
Instead of putting a fixed nameplate on the door to the server room at the high school where I work, we mounted the kind that you can slide plates in and out of. The plan is to accumulate different plates over time and rotate between them.
Here are the ones that we've used so far (It's only been a few months):
Other suggestions are welcome (I plan to steal liberally from those already posted).
It also seemed like a good idea at the time to inscribe, "Hey! Put that back" on the front (covered) side of the faceplate holder.
Auction off the naming rights... (Score:2)
Movie-based suggestions: (Score:2)
Funny one: "Home of the WOPR" [imdb.com]
~Philly
WC (Score:5, Funny)
Ages ago I worked with someone who (with malace aforethought) got everyone to refer to the small room where we delt with all the network/phone interconnects as "the Wiring Closet", and then started shortening it to "the W. C." in memos, and finally (once everyone was numbed to it) put a sign on the door with just the letters "WC".
And then he waited waited...
--MarkusQ
Use an icon-like sign (Score:2)
Proving Ground (Score:2)
I also named all the machines and user accounts (used for testing) after famous disasters, e.g. hindenberg, pinto, bush, etc.
Full disclosure: I didn't come up with the name myself; thanks Baba.
Call it... (Score:2)
use man or apropos (Score:2)
server room: nothing appropriate
if its a osx server room... (Score:2)
X forward...
roswell (Score:2)
Put a sign on the middle of the door... (Score:2)
"This is not an exit..."
Have everyone refer to you as "Patrick" or "Mr. Bateman".
You know the worst part about giving it a name... (Score:2)
Yet another place used X-Files - hundreds of names and references and insider jokes I couldn't even figure out with my wife being the X-Files nutjob she is...
In a Coast Guard facility I worked in all the printers were named after Lord of the Rings characters - that's right we attached to Legolas to print our Remedy ARS reports.
My favorite has always been the name for a PBX/Server room at a national training facility I once worked in: The Batcave. Fortunately, nothing else inside was named after the comic - could you imagine the Nortel Meridian console being named "Joker"?
How about... (Score:2)
That was the ultra computer in Terminator, then of course you have a good selection of names Sara, John, T1000, Arnold, Connor, Terminator, T2, T3 what have you.
Of course, everyone will have to say "I'll be back" when they leave.
common now (Score:2)
"Are you being serverd?"
A few suggestions: (Score:2, Informative)
Somewhere Else
The Operating Room
The Swamp (ala M*A*S*H)
Check Point Charlie (ah the days of the Cold War)
Cryogenic Storage/The Fridge
MIR
Detroit
The Bunker
38 North Yankee (Ah the Korean War)
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Chernobyl/Three Mile Island
The Playground
The Gulag
Angband
Compton
Malkovich
Birdland
The Mother Ship
The Dark TOwer
Heritcorp
Columbia Internet
The Dimension of Pain
Olympus/Kilamanjaro/Denali/K2/Everest
The Satellight odf Love
Paris
Istanbul (not Constantinople)
Dien Bien Phu/Dak Tow/Da Nang...
Iwo Jima/Pearl Harbor/Midway...
Dover, Delaware
Epicenter
The Brain
Nirvana
Yggdrasil/Asgard/Midgard/Bifrost
Kalevala/Pohjola (Lets hear it for Deities and Demigods)
Lankhmar/Newhom
Camelot
The Citidel
The Nucleus
THe Moon
The Core
IT
Oakland
The Conservatory (With the Candlestick)
These are climbs in Yosemite:
Wyoming Sheep Ranch
Zodiac
The Nose
Salathe
Central Pillar of Frenzy
Serenity Crack
Heh. (Score:2)
Being that it jumpstarts hosts on a zillion subnets, it has other IP's (and DNS entries as appropriate, such as):
Boris
Natasha
Sherman
Peabody
Bullwinkle
and, of course:
Flying-Squirrel (since rocky was already taken by the west-coast guys... they have a stallone theme goin' on)
The TSM backup server is named wayback. Heh. I thought it was appropriate
Money Pit (Score:2)
also:
Just some thoughts . . .
The Pit? (Score:3, Interesting)
If you pick a theme for your server names at the same time, the name for the server room can be quite straightforward. Name them after fish and a roomful becomes a school. Name 'em after birds and it becomes a flock. There are lots of collective nouns out there just waiting to be used.
So my suggestion would be to name them after orchestra instruments, so you could justify calling the place "The Pit" :-)
I just want to know the company name. (Score:2, Funny)
Lots of glass walls looking in? (Score:2)
The fishbowl!
The ZOO (Score:2)
You're lucky (Score:2)
At the last place that I worked, we had a really cool descriptive naming scheme that was funny and very descriptive of where the computers were. The one day the CEO decreed that we would use naming codes... database servers would be renamed db01 db02 db03... web www01 www02.
Where I am now (a very large environment) hostnames are 9-12 characters long. There is actually a spreadsheet to name a server! You get gobblygood names like oapapa1234a1p, because every character needs to mean something. (That example would be an powerpc aix server running oracle in production with redundant power in production)
Somebody set up us the bomb... (Score:2, Insightful)
Something completely original (Score:2, Interesting)
Famous salt mines (Score:2)
Hi-Ho, it's off to work we go. (Score:2)
Not only that, but they worked in a mine, so this theme could be replicated.
Now, if there is a Snow White, or a wicked witch of the West.....
Well-known names. Naming servers? (Score:2)
Suggests:
The Matrix: Almost anybody gets that one
NeverNever Land: For MS machines, because that's where data goes too in some cases...
Tarterus (sp?): Depends on how much you like your job.
Might also depend on what you name your servers, or what you plan to name them. You could have a theme place from a book, and name your servers after the characters.
Which reminds me, I was going to ask a very similar question... as to what cool names people have heard for servers. We have ours named after Political Figures and trees here. I have the first server of my own being built and was thinking of naming it after a celestial body, or perhaps a galaxy
The DOP (Score:2)
How about..... (Score:2)
CLLI (Score:2)
I'd recommend the adoption of the telecommunications standard of CLLI(tm) (COMMON LANGUAGE® Location Codes)
More information on CLLI(tm) can be found at Common Language Products [commonlanguage.com].
I wouldn't advise actually paying to register the codes, but I would follow the guidelines, they've worked for a long long time in the organization of the worlds largest network.
Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA SERVER ROOM NAME YOU! (Score:3, Funny)
yeah, but see that's the one chance a computer geek will get to say something like, "Kim just went down on me"...
Re:what's unique about where it is? (Score:2)
Re:How about for the sign "Here there be trolls" (Score:2)
"All Your Bases"