I had two vps13s and didn’t notice until I went to add the DNS entries for it and noticed I already had one with that name. Oops.
Thinking of changing it to be location based instead (eg. au-mel01 or just mel01 for a server in Melbourne Australia). Still boring, but at least there’s less chance of conflicts.
I suggest adding -bogan to differentiate CPUs.
Servers are named after places in Tolkiens works.
Try to keep it : usage-country-location codeXX.example.com according to UN/LOCODE Code List by Country and Territory | UNECE
Take my Looking glass installations as examples: http://lg-no-san.mrvm.net
I use Country Locode as a start for most things I do that is planned to be used on more than one location.
We asked a similar question last year on Twitter, but no one ever guessed the right answer. The picture is doctored, but there is a logic behind the fake names on them…I think there are enough clever minds here that someone will guess it quickly… --Katie, Marketing
Looks to be characters from Sci-Fi shows/movies. I immediately recognized Amy Pond from Dr. Who, T-800 from Terminator, and Hermione Granger from Harry Potter.
Admittedly, I didn’t realize the Doc’s first name was Emmett until I looked it up. Is there something more to the scheme presented than just random TV/Movie characters?
Isn’t Ted Logan from Bill & Teds excellent adventure?
Okay let me guess…
I can say with 99% confidence that this is list of character who have travelled time from movies.
Aint I right?
Hermiony has time turner. Terminator we all know. Ted logan, again time machine. Do I even say about emmett brown? Amy pond also traveled back in time.
I’m getting better at these riddle. Yay!
Yes, that’s definitely it!! Nice detective skills 
Mine make no sense because after awhile I get bored of it and use something else. The most memorable set was probably skin-related-diseases-and-decomposure. I am no longer an angsty teen.
Weird flex, but ok.
Are you related to the guy that responded to the Hetzner tweet that he uses STDs to name his servers? lol
lol no
This is a great scheme to choose with many servers
Not confusing at all !
Yep, that’s correct! Kudos to you! I’m glad that you figured it out 
It’s always kind of sad to come up with a puzzle like that and for it not to be solved. --Katie
I have given up on all these deterministic schemes .
Now I just pick short easy to spell common english words with some implied hint(that makes sense to me only)
eg. retired names: steel, kid, moat, weed, gas, silo, grain
They do not have a pattern on-purpose.
I can then optionally ALIAS or CNAME them with more descriptive names.
Edit: I realize I picked this up years ago from that mnx.io blog post too.
Until you migrate/move shit. Every so often I still have to remind myself why there are gaps.
Wtf is skullfuck, alabama hot pocket and Cleveland Streamer