I named my old white bitfenix prodigy m "Baymax" because it was white and had rounded edges.
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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. π 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.
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Now let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
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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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.
I recently de-embarrassed my hostnames. I went with names that are one step removed from being dead obvious. Feels nice having descriptive, but not uncreative, names for everything
- Custom built desktop pc: Studio
- Home theater PC: Theater
- Server: Gamut (this was Nexus until I ran into bs regarding the TLD preload list in web browsers... had to go with a non-tld name)
- Everything else: Based off the model. For example, my Asus Vivobook S 15 is just "Vivobook", etc
I wouldn't say my hostnames are very creative, but they all have some kind of backstory.
Main desktop: POwOful
It's a pretty powerful desktop, so why not call it that :)
Laptop: LenOwO
Can you guess the laptop brand?
Server 1: Shitbox
It's my first server box I ever built, so it's underpowered and pretty shitty.
Server 2: Stowage
My proper server with actual data parity, and it's pretty powerful
Server 3: Jank
This one is another shitmix of hardware with random harddrives in raid 0. I am aware that they'll die at some point, and all of that data stored on it will be lost, so i use it as temporary storage whenever I need to copy something from one machine to another.
Robot vacuum: suckywucky
Yea....
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weeb ones
cooking-phasers
baconaxe
foot-therapy
Are my current guys.
I use lore from Starcitizen (planet name, space station, satellite, etc.)
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.
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.
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.
I used the names of the eldrazi from magic the gathering:
Ulamog: desktop PC Emrakul: NAS / Plex server name Kozilek: NUC mini PC
I just memorise the IPs lmao. then again I only have 1 or 2 hosts up on my network ever
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)
Norbert, Norbina, Morbert, Morbina, Hassio, Nassio