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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!

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[–] bikooo2@r.nf 3 points 1 week ago

I Used Gondolin for my PC but after reinstalling I didn't put it back on and left the default

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week 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. :)

[–] somenonewho@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Naming my devices after stars. Specifically stars in Ursa-Major

Desktop: alioth Laptop: alkaid Smartphone: alcor SteamDeck: dubhe Server: sarir

[–] clif@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mine are named after the penguins from the Madagascar movie : Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico.

Unfortunately there's only four so I often supplement with a suffix. For example, I've got an old windows laptop kicking around that is "rico-w"

... I should really commit to a naming scheme with a wider array of options.

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[–] Fillicia@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I go for the unoriginal but oh so simple: location-type-No

So HL-SRV-01 is "homelab server no 1"

HS-DSK-02 is "House desktop no2"

NA-LPT-01 is "Not Applicable" because this is my admin laptop that I expect to move around a lot so I always treat it as high-risk.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I named mine after Rocket League cars.

  • Octane (main desktop)
  • Breakout (laptop)
  • Dominus (laptop; older, larger)
[–] StructureOfChaos@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

localhost

Why: for privacy/anonymity concerns

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[–] SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

I started with pirates of the carribean, so...

blackpearl: main PC Redpearl: raspberry pi Purplepearl: refurbished laptop. The router is ... router

The phone is zizidane ("donkey dick" in French, also playword on Zinedine Zidane).

[–] taiidan@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So many answers!!

First it was from planets from Ursula Le Guin's Hainish cycle.

Now it's the names of birds visiting my feeder: chickadee, titmouse, mockingbird, etc.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

This is the most solar punk answer ever! XD Love it. That's really neat. I struggle so much with naming schemes.

[–] eru@mouse.chitanda.moe 3 points 1 week ago
[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I have three Proxmox nodes named: acid1, freebones, and a partially decommissioned node aptly named pve

acid1 was named from a sticker I got in a big collection. I was extra sold on the name when I did some research into acid1 tests.

freebones is from an inside joke from a GPT3.5 bot I terribly finetuned using my friend groups entire chat history. At one point the bot randomly said “algebra: you get free bones” and I kind of just ran with that

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I have node named pve too. Small world.

[–] OmniLotus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
  • Knowledge - Desktop
  • Enlighten - Laptop
  • Insanity - Server
  • Madness - Router
[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I've named my last few computers after planets, with disks named after moons.

When I worked at Microsoft they had all kinds of clusters - OurGang with Spanky, Darla, Alfalfa... Addams with Gomez etc, Disney with Mickey, etc.

[–] Pulsar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Same, all celestial names.

[–] Bitswap@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Nice. I might copy your idea.

[–] Mithre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm similar, but it's internal drives are planets, while external drives are moons.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

When I run out of the solar system I'm going to move on to Star Wars.

[–] zourn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use the most boring names: LASTNAME-LAPTOP LASTNAME-PHONE LASTNAME-SERVER LASTNAME-ROUTER

But, living in tight suburban spaces, I'm never confused whether a device is mine or somebody else's.

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Me too: firstname-device_model

alice-laptop_XPS

bob-cell_i12

I feel so boring!

[–] butter@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

Shit. Here I thought I was creative.

I use my alias butter. With either the device or the OS if I'm dual booting or distrohopping.

[–] ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

I use League of Legends regions. Except for one of them which is not a region but is called "lantern" after the Thresh's lantern in which souls are trapped.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I went with Willow related naming.

My main server and NAS is Madmartigan. Proxmox server is Willow. Headless gaming machine is Sorsha. Bedroom/office laptop is Elora Danan Living room laptop is High Aldwin Then two raspberry Pi's named Rool and Franjean.

I'm not even into Willow that much, I just wanted to find a world of characters I liked.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I don't have a whole network setup like the rest of you guys, but I've been naming my desktop pc's SHODAN ever since I built my first one. Secondary/partner's pc is named XERXES. I'll probably never change them.

[–] Drewski@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I usually name my devices after Greek gods and godesses; Artemis, Hermes, Metis, Athena, Apollo etc.

[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Shit I thought I was so damn novel. Blast you.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Norbert, Norbina, Morbert, Morbina, Hassio, Nassio

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I use characters from whichever book I'm reading at the time. Examples:

  • Arya: From ASOIAF, a small but powerful Ultrabook
  • Cthulhu: From HP Lovecraft, a huge 17" laptop
  • Horus: From the Horus Heresy books, A powerful laptop
  • Binky: Death's white horse from discworld, a white desktop
  • Peaches: A rat that always carries a book with her. My home server
[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

My devices are named after planets from Doctor Who: mondas, telos, skaro, villengard.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I use zerg units.

  • NAS is named Nydus
  • Homelab with a GPU is Hydralisk
  • Jail instance that I can use for random cron jobs is Drone
[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Scale with more ProxMox nodes? Don't you mean

S̸̡̗͉̰̭̬͙̲̩̖̫͔̹̓͛̓̈́̋̈́̊̂̕͡P̶̫̱̜͌́̒̐̄̈́́͐̒̅̆̎͋́͘A̴͙̬͇̐̋̓̋̇̋̒̏̀̀͒͡W̷̡̧̙̭̫̅̐͂̿̋̔̏͗͗̔̄͌̈́͝N̷̡̨̙͉̜̲̗̽͆̊̒̽̐̏̾̇̊̋̓̎͝ ̷̛̟͗̈́Ṃ̸̛͖̤̖̐̇́́̏̐́̋Ơ̶̼̤̣̊̎̔͑̈̈́̇̊͝A̸̧̢͇̣̰̫̙̼͈͈͈͉̼͙̻͑̽̿̊̌͝Ŗ̵̜̦͇̲̜̼͕̞̮̱̝̬̯̓͒̀͛̅͐̌͡͠ͅ ̵̧̺͕̖̘̟̭̥̳̪͖̗̤̞̎̈́̔͊͝O̴͓̼̥͆̈́̓̓͗̐̆̐́̀͂̕V̵̡͎͈͈̗̞̺̭̘͓̬̻̦̙͉̿̎ͅE̷̓̃̄̿̓̒̈́̇͋̑͘ͅŖ̵̛͖̣̼̘̜̹̻̜͍͉̫͍̞̉͆́̐̍̓̊̈͜L̴̛͉̜̩̞͇͕̞̟͎̱͛̇̎̓͝ͅO̸̡̧̢̯̭̟̝̺̩͔̬̜̼͚̬̽́̇̃̌̏̎̏́́̓͒̅̓͘R̷̨̫͍̹̗̮̹̯͆͗̕ͅD̶̨̡̪̼͕͇̻̲͊͑́͋̈̈́̔̅͠S̷̥̼̘̾̽̆̿̃̈́̾͆̾̏͝͡???"

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[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My phone's name is "Samsung Smart Fridge™" because I think it's hilarious if someone is looking at hotspots or network info and go "what the hell is a fridge doing here-"

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's hilarious. Now I wanna set up a Wi-Fi hotspot with that SSID at a local library or something for lulz.

Something like "LG Dishwasher".

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

cooking-phasers

baconaxe

foot-therapy

Are my current guys.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Solar System objects for my local network and names of extra solar objects for my offside servers. With all the moons and named trans neptunian objects in the solar system I so far had no issues finding a hostname candidate.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Colour + noun:

  • redbug
  • bluecar
  • yellowboat
[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My laptop is called xontros-gatos, which in my native language means fat-cat. Similarly, my server is called server-cat, a small laptop that I have for testing stuff is called small-cat and a new laptop that I just got is called fatter-cat.

I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

I bet your whole network is connected by CAT. :P

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Used to be astronomy based. Sol for actual network and then planets and stellar bodies and stuff. But I have so many devices now.

Now I just make it ass informative with as free letters as possible. Almost everything is 3 or 4 letters long.

So like fsrv for file server, msvr for media server and so on.

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