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Crack open Tolkien's The Silmarillion or the appendices to Return of the King and you won't lack for names.

Repeat after me, servers are cattle, not pets.

Elsie.

This is a hilariously difficult question, and I think stuff4ben provided a great answer.

I'm going to start naming my web servers:

web-server-load-balancer

web-server-1

web-server-2

web-server-3

Beach cities. Navy ships. Grateful Dead songs.

Greek Gods names.

How Do You Name Your Servers