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!

  • KurotoraEnglish
    6•1 month 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).

    • KurotoraEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      At home at least try to put some meaning, but at corporate environments as some have mention I got with the classical location-function-environment-XXX _U

      Edit: some typos, because fat-fingers are a thing.

  • Lucy :3English
    4•1 month 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
    Switch at location bv: 30p87-bottom-bv
    Switch at location db: 30p87-bottom-db

    • KrikOPEnglish
      7•1 month ago

      Is that a new kind of masochism?

      • Lucy :3English
        5•1 month ago

        Markdown only inserting newlines on two spaces certainly is. Apart from that, only practical.

        • KrikOPEnglish
          2•1 month ago

          I didn’t meant the newlines. ^^

          • Lucy :3English
            3•1 month ago

            Jup. But they (or rather: their non-existence) are certainly an eyesore

  • @thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4•1 month ago

    My personal use devices are all some variation of Pingu (eg. iPingu, Pingtendo etc.), and my NAS devices are based off Pokémon puns (Storlax and Archivysaur currently).

    My wife on the other hand is boring, so her’s are just system default.

  • hindy
    2•30 days ago

    Hello!

    Well I’m having the following hostnames on my LAN:

    • betelgeuse (Beelink server with Proxmox)
    • altair (an another Beelink server with Proxmox)
    • eudora (outgoing SMTP server)
    • polaris (my laptop)
    • epsilon (my desktop)

    Have fun!

  • skulblakaEnglish
    4•1 month 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.

  • @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7•1 month ago

    Backup: VEEAM01
    DC: DC1
    VM for taxes and other stuff I don’t want on my main pc: ZAHLNIX01 (tl: not paying anything)
    NAS01: My NAS file share VM
    TEST01: Testing VM
    Appoxo-PC2: My main PC (as it’s mark 2)
    Proxmox host: PVE2 (I planned a cluster but have no other nuc to use in the cluster)
    NAS: Current jellyfin and main docker host
    PiNAS02: My Raspberry Pi 4

    As you see: Very creative.

  • Great BlueEnglish
    14•1 month ago

    I’m in the name after location and function fraction. All but my printer, he’s named Cthulhu because printers are a menace to humanity and it supports wake-on-LAN.

  • @tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    34•1 month ago

    Three-letter words that can be typed with one hand, since I have to type them frequently.

    $ egrep "^([qwertasdfgzxcvb]{3}|[yuiophjkllnm]{3})$" /usr/share/dict/words
  • @jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    46•1 month 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

  • @gdog05@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•1 month 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.

  • @lunchbox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    4•1 month 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.

  • @mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
    35•1 month 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