rellik

I can't get into <company>.pagerduty.com for my own company or others that I know. They all give: 502 Bad Gateway

I just got an email that should've triggered a call & text, but nothing came (yet). Anybody know what's up?

edit: confirmed with others

I've gone through a variety of hostnaming strategies over the years, and the one I use now is <service><##> (eg zookeeper01).

With distributed systems in particular, but any system in general, boxes can come and go, and I hate having holes in my names (eg zookeeper01, 02, 04, 05, 06). That, and by choosing the number of leading zeroes, you're guessing at the max number of servers this service will be served by.

How do people manage this? I'm thinking something like <service>-<random_token> (eg zookeeper-fi2) would make sense and be more scalable, but I'm interested in what strategies other people use.

(I'd create a poll but I don't have the 200 karma) =/