Hostname Standards

There are various standards for hostnames from complex to simple. This standard tries to achieve the following,

• Easy to use.
• Have consideration of "tying" machines together (for example, web to apps).
• Provide meaningful grouping when sorted in a list.

Samples

We start by providing some samples for two main scenarios.

Services Model

This cluster of machines provides services. They do not specifically relate to each other.

Web Application Servers

This is an example of web and application servers that would grow over time.

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