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What host names do you use? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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. πŸ˜… 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. Β 
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Now let your pants down and tell me all about

your embarrassing host names!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I just memorise the IPs lmao. then again I only have 1 or 2 hosts up on my network ever

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I use lore from Starcitizen (planet name, space station, satellite, etc.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My little pony. My pihole is pinkypie, mediaserver trottingham, homeassistant is ponyville, and my backup server is canterlot. And so on... :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

cooking-phasers

baconaxe

foot-therapy

Are my current guys.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

weeb ones

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

References to The Dark Tower or Murakami characters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

pretty new setup but so far I've got

symmetra - synology dsm (nas)
junkrat - intel nuc main server

need to name my desktop/laptop now and maybe networking gear. thinking ramattra for the router and zenyatta for the bridge

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Used to be names from Neuromancer like "ono-sendai" and variations of that.

Now laptop is "flat", server is named after it's purpose like log, mail, mon, hosting, storage, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I have pebble, pabble, pibble, rebble, rabble, ribble and nibble.

Though the primary server is old enough that it was from a time when I named everything after Transformers, so it's Shockwave.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I've gone through lots of themes. These days it's mostly where things are or what they are for. Topshelf, closet, code lives on monkey, work laptop is named work. I've had more fun themes but the novelty wore off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Reserved for future use: krex & krox

Poor "kryx".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I named my old white bitfenix prodigy m "Baymax" because it was white and had rounded edges.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I call them after what service is running on it. E.g. openvpn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Norbert, Norbina, Morbert, Morbina, Hassio, Nassio

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I used the names of the eldrazi from magic the gathering:

Ulamog: desktop PC Emrakul: NAS / Plex server name Kozilek: NUC mini PC

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

For my servers I try to use names from the Final Fantasy universe. Lately been focusing on FFXI end game bosses.

Kirin (opnsense firewall) Byakko (proxmox host) Tiamat (proxmox backup) Shiva (Nas)

The only clever virtual machine names I care to brag about are: DockBox (VM running docker) Jellxc (proxmox lxc running jellyfin)

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