Hi fellow selfhosters!

What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
And maybe why if it’s an interesting story.

I’ll start:
Steam Deck: krax
Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
MiniPC: krux
Reserved for future use: krex & krox

Creative, I know. 😅 The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That’s it.

I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that.  
 
 

Now let your pants down and tell me all about

your embarrassing host names!

  • LegoraftEnglish
    6•2 months ago

    I use the names of greek deities for my host names, mostly geared towards the function of the server/computer.

    • Nyx (dark-blue laptop)
    • Hypnos (gaming machine)
    • Argus (pi-hole and reverse proxy)
    • Prometheus (minecraft server)
  • Piranha PhishEnglish
    5•3 months ago

    The printer’s name is Marvin, from HHGTTG.

    It never wants to work and always complains.

  • @pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4•3 months ago

    Server (big iron): Bender

    Desktop (main character): Fry

    Laptop (for accounting): Hermes

    Netbook (small and dumb): Nibbler

    Phone (held to my head): BrainSlug

    HTPC (one big viewport): Leela

  • caseyweedermanEnglish
    3•2 months ago

    I take a word that’s related to the purpose of the new host and put it in an online translator and cycle through languages until I get something cool.

  • @lunchbox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3•3 months ago

    I originally named all my hardware after members of the Wu-Tang Clan plus some close affiliates, but I actually ran out of names, so now I use MFDOOM aliases for my workstations, and keep Wu-Tang for infrastructure, because it’s for the children.

  • @SnachBarr@lemm.eeEnglish
    3•3 months ago

    I’ve always done characters from Beatles songs

    • Walrus
    • Martha
    • Her-Majesty
    • Submarine
    • MissLizzy
    • Blackbird
    • NowhereMan
    • SgtPepper
    • Jojo
  • @MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    For my ProxMox server stuff I went with Lord of the Rings. The idea being the servers would be locations and the VMs would characters.

    So right now my main server is Rivendell, and my PiHole on it is Gandalf (“You shall not pass!” Heehee eventually he’ll have OPNSense too…)

    If I get HomeAssistant at some point, obviously that’ll be Samwise!

    My Klipper VM for 3D printing is Celebrimbor, and the individual printers are named after various deities or myth figures of crafting/smithing/creativity like Brigid and Eitri.

    For my client devices, I name my personal hardware after BattleTech mechs and that works well. It’s intuitive because I can line up various roles and weight classes.

    So my main desktop is Timberwolf, and my laptops are named after light mechs like Kitfox or Mistlynx.

    Phones and tablets I don’t really care about, they usually just name themselves after their model anyway. :)

  • OMNIEnglish
    2•3 months ago
    • Knowledge - Desktop
    • Enlighten - Laptop
    • Insanity - Server
    • Madness - Router
    • @MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      Gotta say, from what I’ve heard from the trenches, “insanity” and “madness” sound like fantastic names for printers or print servers, but the router also makes perfect sense! Lol

  • @shiftymccool@programming.devEnglish
    2•2 months ago

    My home network is called The IT Clowd with these devices:

    • Moss - physical server
    • Roy - physical server
    • Jen - vm - main docker host
    • Richmond - vm - *arr stack
    • Denholm - vm - management, monitoring
    • Douglas - vm - Home Assistant stack
    • Basement - vm - development server
  • The Bard in GreenEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    Every computer I own is an autobot. My primary machine is always Optimus Prime, has been since 2008. Other machines get other names generally slightly inspired by their role / nature. Bumblebee and CliffJumper are miniPCs of various persuasions, Preceptor is my “mess around with AI” box, my big server that handles most of my data and network services is Wheeljack, my Macbook is Mirage, my backup server is Powerglide, my TV (which is an old Dell all in One running Linux Mint) is UltraMagnus.

  • @nf999@lemm.eeEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    Asterix & Obelix themed.

    • Asterix is a rpi4, strong and small with ssd running dockers with homeassistant, revproxy and webserver, and camera storage.
    • Idefix is a rpi3, mainly test only nowadays.
    • Obelix is my desktop running voidlinux.

    I used to have Pneumatix which is the mailman as the mail server and Panoramix, the druid, as domoticz server, Heroix, chief, as firewall and Bellefleur, beauty, as webserver 😉 All were LXD virtual servers on a pentium 3. I try to find a character matching the functionality. Except for domoticz all are now dockers on Asterix, so less use of funny names.

    Non linux machines would be roman names from Asterix & Obelix, but I have none …

    At work we used famous dogs. Laika, Pluto, Cerberus etc

  • @jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    I name my devices after greek gods based on what I’m going in life at the time or after what their purpose is.

    I named my first gaming PC “Poseidon” when I was doing ship related work. Now it’s my server.

    My gaming PC is “Asclepius”, the Greek god of healing. Built when I got into healthcare.

    Hermes, god of messeges, is my lil pi that helps with routing (pihole, pivpn, nginx).

    My HTPC is Dionysus, Greek god of wine and parties.

    My thinkpad is Persephone cus it looks good but doesn’t do much. I might rename it.

    The services that I run on these are just named “device-service” e.g. hermes-nginx