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!

  • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    29 days 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

    • grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      29 days ago

      fuck, this is way better than my current naming scheme of "customer-<devicepurpose>, I’m stealing it for my next setup.

  • mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    29 days ago

    MacBook Pro: mbp.domain.com
    Raspberry Pi 2: rpi2.domain.com
    Raspberry Pi 3: rpi3.domain.com
    Raspberry Pi 4: rpi4.domain.com
    Raspberry Pi 5: rpi5.domain.com
    (Yes, I have one of each.)
    Synology DS415+: ds415.domain.com
    Phone: iphone.domain.com
    Watch: watch.domain.com
    AppleTV: appletv.domain.com
    Nintendo Switch: switch.domain.com

  • Kelo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    29 days ago

    They’re all some kind of machine. Steam deck: SteamMachineryV1

    PC: ArchMachineryV2

    Phone: Android_μMachine

    Oddly enough my server goes by MonoVerse, which I named first and I guess it just stuck.

  • Lucy :3@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    29 days ago

    Desktop: 30p87 Laptop: 30p87-laptop Phone: 30p87-phone Server: 30p87-server DNS server at location bv: 30p87-dns-bv DNS server at location db: 30p87-dns-db

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    29 days 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

    • Reven@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      28 days ago

      This is my scheme as well! Pretty much to the t. Except my HTPC is hypnotoad and nibbler is my NAS.

  • nf999@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    27 days 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

  • Andrew Woods@phpc.social
    1·
    29 days ago

    @Krik For my personal devices, i use the names of the 12 Colonies of Kobol from Battlestar Galactica. So I currently have 2 laptops: Aerilon and Caprica. When I get a new phone, I’ll probably name it Scorpia or Tauron.

    Choosing a good naming scheme depends on how many you need, and how often you add to your collection.

    If you need some inspiration, check out this list. https://namingschemes.com/Main_Page

  • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    29 days ago
    • Omnigon: refers to my network and server overall
    • Terragon: Utility desktop
    • Pyrogon: Gaming desktop
    • Aquagon: Laptop
    • Aerogon: Phone
    • Sonogon: RPi sound server
    • Minigon: Cyberdeck
  • Kurotora@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    29 days ago

    I think a similar post came few time ago, but no ashamed in my case. I use late pet names, for me as a tribute to their memory. Also, I try to put some logic in the name, like the squirrel name for a lightweight VM with not much services / workload or dog name for the reverse proxy (guardian function).