i'm not good with names.

my server's name is... server

Calculon - Workstation

Flexo - Gaming laptop

Bender - Intel Nuc/HTPC

Hmm my Synology NAS is called Syn, I need to find a more appropriate name for it.

• poweredge-t620-0
• poweredge-t620-1
• poweredge-r520-0
• macbook-2011
• pi-0 through pi-3

having read all these other comments, i'm now feeling like i should come up with a more creative naming scheme... for what it's worth, my phone is named bob.

I don't name my computers, but usually name my OS drive Brain and the media drive Pinky.

Servers and computers get Ankh-Morpork street names.

The robot vacuum cleaner is GLaDOS.

I name mine after Futurama characters because there's a lot of them and I found a cool icon set to use.

Desktop: Cerberus (triple monitors)
Media server: Alexandria
Firewall: Hadrian

Damnit, I'm boring af. Machines are named by their model for laptops/consumer devices and buy their CPU for home built stuff.

Except for Crimson-Binome.local 🏴‍☠️

All my servers are named after colors

Then my vms are ingredients to an omelette

Desktop - thebox
Server - thecloud
Phone - thewand
Tablet - theportal
Home assistant - theoracle

Not too creative, but it works.

I once named a load of servers for a helicopter company in the UK with elements. The cluster nodes were copper, silicon, etc. The cluster itself was called iron. The volumes were labelled fe_function.

It worked - it was easy to read and the bits that implied "cluster" were grouped appropriately. All the other servers had random elemental names unless they were associated in some way, in which case the group would be used. The engineers (real engineers with oil or distressingly nasty lubricants in their veins) loved it - it made sense, without being too quirky. It was very legible.

When those systems were hoicked out and replaced, the usual nonsense was applied: 2 char country code + 2 char site code etc etc ad nauseam. Followed by my absolute pet hate: 01. Oh so you might need 99 domain controllers? Yes you might, but not on one site.

Let's face it, it is mostly AD admins who don't get hostnames. I blame MS - their docs and blogs strive to be ... authoritative or at least look so. An entire generation (possibly two) of sysadmins have been sold up the river by MS and their wankery.

My PC is named Shai'tan, and my laptop Astraea. As for why, it's because I am into fantasy.

I feel like I can't be the only immature one here...

My NAS is called AY-NAS.

I've got a bunch of Rpis named things like DANK-SBC, WONK-SBC and RAW-SBC.

@[email protected] @[email protected] some version of cat sounds: meowmeow, purrpurr, naunau, etc.

I used fictional locations:

• Server 1: valinor
• Server 2: terminus
• Main pc: isla-nublar

Users are named after movies or tv shows characters when I'm not using my name

Oh god.

Mine are:

• Livingroom
• Basement
• Bedroom

My stationary devices are named after evil characters from middle earth, ungoliant, gothmog, morgoth etc. Mobile devices are named after good characters, illuvatar, gil-galad, elendil. My dad uses native American tribes for names.

My Nas is named Optimus my Mac Plex server is named Macsimus

Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

My personal use computers are named after characters from the manga Tearmoon Empire Story, MiaLuna (storage server) - Anne (home desktop) - Ludwig (laptop).

My phones were named after JJBA characters (Jonathan Joestar - Joseph Joestar - Speedwagon)

Small form factor computers for automation are typically named after their purpose, without anything creative (PiMirrorDNS, PineKodi, PiPocket)

Nobody has said it... so I have to say it

Cattle not pets!

All my machines are named 'localhost', welcome to 127.0.0.1 farms

framepuncher for the desktop

smolmac for the macmini running all the things that would be more at home on an rpi if the mac hadn't been 50 bucks when pi's were in three digits

the nas is Steve, formerly Ralph. Ralph became the router.

My PC is called "Powderkeg" because it keeps blowing up on me.

Really uncreative, but: $myInitials-desktop $myInitials-server $myInitials-laptop

With my username being…. $myInitials. Surprising, really. Boring, but consistent. :)

My personal PCs/VMs are named after fairies from Pixie Hollow. (Silvermist, Zarina, Rosetta)

I've got menus and stuff orange on Rosetta. :)

My Proxmox server is named Atlas, as the titan holding up my network.

My VMs on the proxmox server are named:

• TrueNAS (I didn't have a good name)
• Poseidon for my docker server (Something something docker -> whale -> ocean)

I also have a raspberry pi running for testing out some stuff. It's named Eileithyia after the greek goddess of birth.

I currently only have a craptop, but I've settled on naming them after elements, vaguely based on the power of the machine. My craptop is called hydrogen. I also have a full installation on a USB drive called quark, being less than a full machine/element.

Everything starts with rum, like my username, for some reason. My phone is "rumpixel" and my desktop is called "rumtower".

I name my machines after planets in the Dune universe.

A five character name in the form of CVCVC that doesn't show up as a common English word. The main reason is that I want my colmena and host names to be nicely lined up, there is a lot of space in there, and it happens to be the pattern of a race of telepaths in my fantasty world where telepathy is loosely based off of IPv6 addresses and REST and remote RPC calls.

Previously, my computer names were based on Lojban gismu based on their use, so names like fraxu (forgive), briju (office), etc.

On the other hand, my dad's computer names are: bob, bob2, bob3, bob4, bob5, bob6, bob7, bob8, steve, bob9, bob10, bob11, bob12, bob13, bob14, bob15, and bob16.

My mother's company were all named off of international currencies (we were doing a stock trading project), so dollar, mark, franc, pound, euro, etc.

My other dad's computers are named after logical constructs: axiom, theory, etc. He was a scientist.

Punt speedchunk (MST3K reference)

• My desktop is Aperture
• My wife's desktop is Dovahkiin
• My wife's laptop is Lyndis
• The printer is Vaarsuvius
• The firewall is GlaDOS
• The file server is Atlantis

I give them all Warhammered Latin hostnames like TABULARIUM-MAGNUS.

hydrogen, helium, lithium and beryllium

My laptops and RPis aren't named anything interesting. My server is named Lyla though. I let my youngest kid pick the name.

My main PC is all white (by coincidence) so I named it Minas Tirith

I like swords
Odachi - Server
Katana - Desktop
Wakizashi - Laptop
Tanto - Phone

London Underground themed. Where possible the station name somewhat reflects the purpose of the machine. Some names are shortened.

• Bank: NAS server
• Barbican: Jellyfin server
• Paddington: Pi-hole
• Piccadilly: Raspberry pi
• Heathrow: Proxy manager

Wireless access points named as DLR stations.

Network hardware named as Underground lines.

Station names can be chosen based on their zone to indicate physical location. Zone 1 in the house etc.

Previously by color/occupation.

Red Desktop, Music Workstation.

Been thinking themes more recently though. WolvesDen for my server, thinking of expanding on that some.

Nothing original;

lappy386 - my laptop

desktop (very original)

mainframe - NAS/nextcloud/email

orac - multimedia/jellyfin/photoprism/owntone

bemo (I know, I cant spell) - pihole/unbound/homeassistant/wireguard

Future servers will be named after any TV scifi tech that takes my fancy. (twiki, zen (or was it xen?), data, k-9, ada, marvin, romi, holly, bender, dolores). Any suggestions?

My old desktop, now relegated to torrent/fileshare duty, is named USELESS-BRICK (you can guess why)

My brand new desktop is named SPEEDY-BRICK (you can also guess why)

The Rpi3 and Orange Pi 5 I use for small compute tasks, a printer server, random fucking around, etc are TINY-BRICK-1 and TINY-BRICK-2, respectively.

The random ATX server board that I used to use before the motherboard died was FlatBoard, because it didn't have a case, just a small steel backframe I welded up for it.

I name them after their case or purpose. My truenas is just called truenas, its plex jail is just called plex, my laptops are yoga and starlite because those are their product line names. Desktop is frame because it uses a masterframe 700.

I am not very imaginative with naming things. And when I do get imaginative I just appear to have a mental disorder. My BG3 characters are Scrimpus, Scrompus, and Screeper.

My servers have names of Spanish words humorist El Risitas says in his mythical video where he laughs with no real reason.

The biggest server is named "cocinero", because I can (jokingly) easily imagine a very fat cook.

Then there is plancha, a lenovo thinkcentre which has the size of a plank.

My raspberry pi's have names of tapas: chorizo, keso etc.

I like to have different naming schemes for different device classes.
Desktop computers: Greek gods
Laptops: Elements of the periodic table
Cloud servers: Norse gods
Home servers: Planets of the solar system
Raspberry Pis: Greek titans