Micro.blog users who check the logs page will notice that the platform routes publishing requests to one of our servers and includes the server name in the log. The names were originally added to help me debug, but as an easter egg I also linked to the Disneyland Railroad wiki page.
I like having a theme for naming computers. For the last dozen years, all of my personal computers and hard drives have been named for characters in Hayao Miyazaki films. For servers, I’ve used Disney train-related names.
Here’s the current list of our servers. I’m going to start linking to this blog post from the logs page so it makes a little more sense. Eventually, the easter egg will probably be a distraction and I’ll remove it.
- Carolwood: MySQL server. Carolwood Pacific Railroad was Disney’s backyard railroad.
- Marsh: MySQL server. One of the locomotives at Disneyland, named after Ernest Marsh.
- Santa Rosa: Static web server. For the Santa Rosa Valley Railroad, the private railroad of Bill Dundas with connections to Disney.
- Sotto: Static web server. For Eddie Sotto of Walt Disney Imagineering.
- Shanghai. Redis server. Just named for one of the Disney park locations in China.
- Thunder. Redis server. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
- Broggie. App web server. Named for Roger Broggie, who worked at Disney’s machine shop.
- Holliday. App web server. Another one of the locomotives at Disneyland.
- Retlaw. App web server. Another train car from Disneyland and the history of Retlaw Enterprises.
Also a few decommissioned servers:
- Fort Wilderness. Named for the railroad at Disney World that was long ago shut down.
- Kimball. For Ward Kimball.
- Lilly. For Disney’s Lilly Belle.
Happy railroading! 🚂
