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!

  • Great Blue@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    30 days 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
    3·
    30 days 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
  • HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    Characters from the Murderbot Dairies, mostly

    • main laptop (t480 currently) – Murderbot;
    • previous main laptop (x270) – MB20;
    • homeserver – ART;
    • a TV box running armbian – Miki;
    • t440p is currently Behemoth (from Bulgakov’s “Мастер и Маргарита”), although I’ll probably rename it to Holism;
    • x230t – Three;
    • a random thin client I occasionally use to test stuff is yogurt (from" love, death & robots"), not sure if I’ll rename them.
  • SnachBarr@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    29 days ago

    I’ve always done characters from Beatles songs

    • Walrus
    • Martha
    • Her-Majesty
    • Submarine
    • MissLizzy
    • Blackbird
    • NowhereMan
    • SgtPepper
    • Jojo
  • marighost@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    30 days ago

    My devices are cringely named after songs in Haken’s discography.

    Desktop is MESSIAH. Laptop is AFFINITY. Phone is NIGHTINGALE. Steam Deck is SHAPESHIFTER. Router (and its WAP) is PORTALS. My NAS is the only one that falls outside of this, it’s generically (last name)NetNAS. I should rename it, but I don’t want to break anything 😅

    Eta: changed my NAS’ hostname is ARCHITECT. Nothing broke! Yay for me.

  • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    30 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

  • mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    30 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

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    29 days ago

    Huh. I thought for sure someone else would be using my scheme.

    LAN computers are all Tolkien swords: sting, orcrist, gurthang, glamdring, etc. If I run out of swords, I’ll start adding other weapons: aeglost, the spear; dailir, the arrow. We don’t get a lot of named battle axes, which I always thought weird; I’d think dwarves of all people would forge legendary axes, and certainly name them.

    My WiFi and VPN networks are forests in Middle Earth: fangorn, bindbole, dimholt, lothlorien, etc. The only exception is my LAN itself which is… “lan”. Because short.

    My cloud VPSes are named after Greek Titans: hyperion, phaethusa, tethys, etc.

    Mobile devices have whatever names they come with, because they’re so ephemeral.

    • Exhume5947@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      29 days ago

      In the past, I used Gimli’s family tree for server names. My main server was called “Thorin”. I think I had used Thrain and Gloin.

      These days I use Union generals from the civil war:

      Sherman - NAS, media server, nextcloud. Thomas - reverse proxy, adguard1. Ellsworth - arr stack. Sheridan - backup server. dockerhost01 - because naming your servers after their function makes a lot more sense.

  • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    29 days ago

    Y’all are too creative for me… I have:

    • poweredge-r520-0
    • poweredge-t620-0
    • poweredge-t620-1
    • pi4-0
    • pi3b-0
    • pi3b-1
    • pi3b-2
    • pi3b-3
    • vostro-3525-0
    • ideapad-c340-0
    • killabeezio@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      29 days ago

      I have to ask, why start with 0? I never understood this with infrastructure. I would do something like 00000 if I did numbers so it would be easy to sort, but I always started with 1. I’m just curious.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
        0·
        28 days ago

        One possibility could be because in conventional “computer counting” in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things

        [monke, chimp, peanut]

        monke would be [0]

        chimp would be[1]

        peanut would be [2]

        Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it’s a habit, I won’t make those mistakes as often with code. I dunno. :p

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          28 days ago

          Use Lua, it uses one-based arrays. This is nice for a few reasons:

          • last element is array[length]
          • zero can be reserved for the type (especially nice for representing XML: 0 = node name, 1-N = children, named table entries = attributes)
          • very rarely see + 1 and - 1 in my code

          It feels wrong coming from C, but it’s actually really nice, especially since the reasons C does it don’t apply (i.e. index is just a memory offset).

  • lorentz@feddit.itEnglish
    1·
    30 days ago

    Devices are named after characters from books I recently read, trying to match the name with the character of the book. But for virtual hosts for services I use their purpose (wiki, files, feed…) because I wasted too much time updating all the bookmarks last time I migrated to a new server.

  • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    29 days ago

    I only have 1 box really, it’s named Hal. Seems helpful, not entirely sure if it’s on my side. Could murder me. I keep an analog shotgun next to it.

  • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    29 days ago

    I use Alps bigger peaks for the hosts like:

    • Castore
    • Polluce
    • Lyskamm
    • Gnifetti
    • etc.

    (yes, mainly from Monte Rosa) and smaller peaks for the VMs:

    • Grigna
    • Grignetta
    • Resegone
    • Cornizzolo
    • Palanzone
    • etc.