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Best Worst Server Name Awards Compendium: Page 19 of 42

Submitted By: Jeff Chasalow
Server Function: It's our root controller - we just went to active directories

Reasoning Behind Name: 8th planet out from the sun
Server Name: uranus

 

Submitted By: Ben Jones
Server Function: CHEKS TO MAKE SURE EQUIPMENT IS UP
Reasoning Behind Name: Do I really have to explain?

Server Name: OHSHIT

 

Submitted By: Jeff Wold
Server Function: A pair of exchange servers, one was mailbox, the other was smtp/owa services
Reasoning Behind Name: a famous cannibal: Alferd Packer. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/MEATpacker.html
Server Name: pair of servers Alferd and Packer