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I always figured that names are good if you treat your servers like pets -- unique, long-lived individuals with personalities and quirks.

Otherwise, you use numbers, and you treat them like farm animals -- anonymous, members of a species, with shorter lives.

You can get attached to pets, but you shouldn't bond to livestock.

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I wouldn't say it's good or bad, it just is. Sometimes being attached to a server can be helpful, but it can also be a hindrance. There's no right or wrong answer.

You also should never have hundreds of pets at once.

Lest you become a crazy cat lady. I like this metaphor.

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