René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Server naming scheme","articleBody":"We don't have many servers (nominally 1 if load allows it), but if we need to provision a bigger one, and destroy the old, it'd be good to have a reasonable naming scheme. I've found [this blog post](https://mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme/) which seems reasonable. It is for a far higher count of servers than we need, so we can skip a few items, but I think something like the following:\r\n* Servers are named `\u003cprefix\u003e.matplotlib.org` in A records.\r\n* Servers get a functional CNAME alias (e.g., `web01.matplotlib.org`). Since we have few servers, I suggest ignoring the geographical and environmental prefixes given in the post.\r\n* `matplotlib.org` is a CNAME to the functional CNAME of a server.\r\n\r\nThere are several suggested word pools, but as it's fairly neutral, easy-to-remember, and not-too-difficult-to-spell, I'm going to suggest that we use [Planets in our Solar System](https://namingschemes.com/Solar_System) as `\u003cprefix\u003e`.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/QuLogic","@type":"Person","name":"QuLogic"},"datePublished":"2022-03-29T23:35:29.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/14/matplotlib.org/issues/14"}