History of server names?

[guitar]

I searched the forum, wiki, and even used Google.

What I'd like to know is if there's a history behind the server names? Are they characters from a book, movie, song?

No real good reason, as it's just something that made me curious.

[Krydos]

This might explain a lot of it http://wiki.helionet.org/HelioHost_History

[guitar]

This might explain a lot of it http://wiki.helionet.org/HelioHost_History

 

That's a nice read but, alas, doesn't tell me where the names came from. My curiosity is not that important - but I've found some neat naming conventions over the years and wondered if this might be one and I was just missing the reference.

 

Thanks!

[wolstech]

The names themselves are just made up. There's no significance to them, the mods and admins just vote on the names.

 

There is a naming convention though:

• Physical hardware has a name ending in 'ie', hence Stevie, Charlie, and Eddie. There's also one called Katie, but it's only for internal use (runs a personal project for the company founder).
• The VMs on the hardware end in 'y', hence, Ricky, Johnny, Tommy, Cody, (and soon Lily).

[guitar]

Awesome! Thanks!