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!

  • Legoraft@reddthat.comEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    I use the names of greek deities for my host names, mostly geared towards the function of the server/computer.

    • Nyx (dark-blue laptop)
    • Hypnos (gaming machine)
    • Argus (pi-hole and reverse proxy)
    • Prometheus (minecraft server)
  • shiftymccool@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    My home network is called The IT Clowd with these devices:

    • Moss - physical server
    • Roy - physical server
    • Jen - vm - main docker host
    • Richmond - vm - *arr stack
    • Denholm - vm - management, monitoring
    • Douglas - vm - Home Assistant stack
    • Basement - vm - development server
  • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months 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
      2·
      10 months ago

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

  • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    10 months 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

  • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I named mine after Rocket League cars.

    • Octane (main desktop)
    • Breakout (laptop)
    • Dominus (laptop; older, larger)
  • SnachBarr@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I’ve always done characters from Beatles songs

    • Walrus
    • Martha
    • Her-Majesty
    • Submarine
    • MissLizzy
    • Blackbird
    • NowhereMan
    • SgtPepper
    • Jojo
  • clif@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Mine are named after the penguins from the Madagascar movie : Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico.

    Unfortunately there’s only four so I often supplement with a suffix. For example, I’ve got an old windows laptop kicking around that is “rico-w”

    … I should really commit to a naming scheme with a wider array of options.

  • caseyweederman@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • Riley@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    My devices are named after planets from Doctor Who: mondas, telos, skaro, villengard.

  • Shirogane Ryu@r.nfEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    I Used Gondolin for my PC but after reinstalling I didn’t put it back on and left the default

  • somenonewho@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

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

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

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    10 months 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
  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    I use zerg units.

    • NAS is named Nydus
    • Homelab with a GPU is Hydralisk
    • Jail instance that I can use for random cron jobs is Drone
    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      "Scale with more ProxMox nodes? Don’t you mean

      S̸̡̗͉̰̭̬͙̲̩̖̫͔̹̓͛̓̈́̋̈́̊̂̕͡P̶̫̱̜͌́̒̐̄̈́́͐̒̅̆̎͋́͘A̴͙̬͇̐̋̓̋̇̋̒̏̀̀͒͡W̷̡̧̙̭̫̅̐͂̿̋̔̏͗͗̔̄͌̈́͝N̷̡̨̙͉̜̲̗̽͆̊̒̽̐̏̾̇̊̋̓̎͝ ̷̛̟͗̈́Ṃ̸̛͖̤̖̐̇́́̏̐́̋Ơ̶̼̤̣̊̎̔͑̈̈́̇̊͝A̸̧̢͇̣̰̫̙̼͈͈͈͉̼͙̻͑̽̿̊̌͝Ŗ̵̜̦͇̲̜̼͕̞̮̱̝̬̯̓͒̀͛̅͐̌͡͠ͅ ̵̧̺͕̖̘̟̭̥̳̪͖̗̤̞̎̈́̔͊͝O̴͓̼̥͆̈́̓̓͗̐̆̐́̀͂̕V̵̡͎͈͈̗̞̺̭̘͓̬̻̦̙͉̿̎ͅE̷̓̃̄̿̓̒̈́̇͋̑͘ͅŖ̵̛͖̣̼̘̜̹̻̜͍͉̫͍̞̉͆́̐̍̓̊̈͜L̴̛͉̜̩̞͇͕̞̟͎̱͛̇̎̓͝ͅO̸̡̧̢̯̭̟̝̺̩͔̬̜̼͚̬̽́̇̃̌̏̎̏́́̓͒̅̓͘R̷̨̫͍̹̗̮̹̯͆͗̕ͅD̶̨̡̪̼͕͇̻̲͊͑́͋̈̈́̔̅͠S̷̥̼̘̾̽̆̿̃̈́̾͆̾̏͝͡???"

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        0·
        10 months ago

        Hah, they’re TrueNAS BSD jails, but yes, now I need to figure out how to rename the “Jails” tab in my UI to overlords.

        Also, all the extra work my self-hosting endeavors generate is “creep”.