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!

  • ThePooDragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 days 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)

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

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

  • caseyweederman@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    6 days 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.

  • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    7 days 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.

  • FunkFactory@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 days 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

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    9 days 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
      3·
      8 days ago

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

  • mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    9 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

  • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    8 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
  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialEnglish
    7·
    8 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.

  • dave@hal9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    Desktop: HAL9000

    laptop: HALjr

    Phone: HALnano

    Then HALserver, HALprinter (octoprint), HALhome (home assistant) and so on… Big fan of Stanley Kubrick haha

    Tried to get the hal9.ooo domain name but it was taken…

    Edit: I use Dave as the username, so that in the terminal it is dave@hal9000, which just seems appropriate

  • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    I named mine after Rocket League cars.

    • Octane (main desktop)
    • Breakout (laptop)
    • Dominus (laptop; older, larger)