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
    2·
    4 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!

  • lunchbox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    10 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.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

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

  • shiftymccool@programming.devEnglish
    0·
    7 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
    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Gotta say, from what I’ve heard from the trenches, “insanity” and “madness” sound like fantastic names for printers or print servers, but the router also makes perfect sense! Lol

  • clif@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    10 days 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.

      • clif@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Yeah… I should expand. The penguins are just my favorite part of those movies and it matches the Linux motif that I started with yet falls apart, you know, when I name a windows laptop rico-w : P

  • caseyweederman@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    9 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.