I used to be very into theme names. You know, back in the early '90s when this document was published.<p>Sit down and let me tell you a story of the moment that really put the nail in the theme-based name coffin for me...<p>I used to run a System Admin consulting business. One of our clients had a bunch of systems that were named things like "db" prefix for database servers, "web" for web servers, etc...<p>They hired a new CTO at one point, and his first order of business was to rename all the servers. His naming scheme was: Machines would be named after cities around the world, and the country they were in would represent the function.<p>So when we got paged at 3am that "Host statista is down", you both had to know that Statista was a Finnish city, and that Finland was the country chosen for database servers. Knowing that it was the primary rather than secondary was just something you had to remember.<p>"Host kolding is down" might have been something that could wait until the morning, because that is a Danish city, and that's the name used for web servers, and there are 5 of them that are load-balanced.<p>He was, to my mind, giddy once this naming scheme was in place. It took something like a calendar month to architect and implement this change.