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Is there a convention for naming a local server. I am preparing to set up a dell poweredge 4400 on windows 2003 server and i'm trying to decide what to name it. For example, if our company web site is <a href="http://www.arkengineering.net" rel="ugc">www.arkengineering.net</a>, then our remote domain name is arkengineering.net. Should i call the local server ark.local or arkengineering.local.<br />
If I expect to host the company web site on this server at some point in the distant future, will I have to change the name? Any other original suggestions or innovative ideas would be appreciated.
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Is there a convention for naming a local server. I am preparing to set up a dell poweredge 4400 on windows 2003 server and i'm trying to decide what to name it. For example, if our company web site is www.arkengineering.net, then our remote domain name is arkengineering.net. Should i call the local server ark.local or arkengineering.local.
If I expect to host the company web site on this server at some point in the distant future, will I have to change the name? Any other original suggestions or innovative ideas would be appreciated.

Local domain server naming convention

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).