Posted by Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) on 04/16/07 03:37

"pbd22" <dushkin@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> for www.somesite.com
>
> would the database server and associated drives
> look something like this:
>
> database server:
> data.somesite.com

I tend to NOT do this, if only because if you have a "hole" in security it
makes things a bit easier to discover.

(Granted, security through obscurity is not a great idea, but at times it
can help a bit.)


>
> various drives on the database server:
> db1.data.somesite.com, db2.data.somesite.com, db3.data.somesite.com,
> and so on...
>
> anybody out there build a database cluster before? how
> did you handle naming?

Database cluster named: FOO
Server1: FOO1
Server2: FOO2
ServerN: FOON


>
> finally, I am noticing that really big sites such as yahoo and hotmail
> use garbage in their namespace. So, for example, this is hotmail:
>
> by138w.bay138.mail.live.com

That's server 138 in their bay area datacenter is my guess.

>
> is there an advantage to using a less obvious naming convention?
>
> responses appreciated!
>



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