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!

  • hindy@mbin.lovetux.net
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    6 days 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!

  • Legoraft@reddthat.com
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    11 days 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)
  • lunchbox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    12 days ago

    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.

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    14 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.world
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      13 days ago

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

  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
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    12 days ago

    Every computer I own is an autobot. My primary machine is always Optimus Prime, has been since 2008. Other machines get other names generally slightly inspired by their role / nature. Bumblebee and CliffJumper are miniPCs of various persuasions, Preceptor is my “mess around with AI” box, my big server that handles most of my data and network services is Wheeljack, my Macbook is Mirage, my backup server is Powerglide, my TV (which is an old Dell all in One running Linux Mint) is UltraMagnus.

  • shiftymccool@programming.dev
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    9 days 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
  • nf999@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    Asterix & Obelix themed.

    • Asterix is a rpi4, strong and small with ssd running dockers with homeassistant, revproxy and webserver, and camera storage.
    • Idefix is a rpi3, mainly test only nowadays.
    • Obelix is my desktop running voidlinux.

    I used to have Pneumatix which is the mailman as the mail server and Panoramix, the druid, as domoticz server, Heroix, chief, as firewall and Bellefleur, beauty, as webserver 😉 All were LXD virtual servers on a pentium 3. I try to find a character matching the functionality. Except for domoticz all are now dockers on Asterix, so less use of funny names.

    Non linux machines would be roman names from Asterix & Obelix, but I have none …

    At work we used famous dogs. Laika, Pluto, Cerberus etc

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

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

  • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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    11 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.

  • nomad@infosec.pub
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    12 days 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.

  • VitabytesDev@feddit.nl
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    13 days ago

    My laptop is called xontros-gatos, which in my native language means fat-cat. Similarly, my server is called server-cat, a small laptop that I have for testing stuff is called small-cat and a new laptop that I just got is called fatter-cat.

    I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      12 days ago

      Hmm, what does localhost.local do if you use mdns?

      Also, your router must be a bit confusing:

      • localhost - 192.168.1.2
      • localhost - 192.168.1.3
  • isles@lemmy.world
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    13 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.