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!

  • lefixxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    25 days ago

    I have a bunch of stickers that i put on anything that can use a name.

    i have Pis called korvo, terry, pupi pcs called entropia, lubian (lua and debian) hdds have clothing brands

  • shiftymccool@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    8 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
  • JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    My phone’s name is “Samsung Smart Fridge™” because I think it’s hilarious if someone is looking at hotspots or network info and go “what the hell is a fridge doing here-”

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
      0·
      8 months ago

      That’s hilarious. Now I wanna set up a Wi-Fi hotspot with that SSID at a local library or something for lulz.

      Something like “LG Dishwasher”.

  • Great Blue@infosec.pubEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    I’m in the name after location and function fraction. All but my printer, he’s named Cthulhu because printers are a menace to humanity and it supports wake-on-LAN.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    0·
    8 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
  • marighost@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    My devices are cringely named after songs in Haken’s discography.

    Desktop is MESSIAH. Laptop is AFFINITY. Phone is NIGHTINGALE. Steam Deck is SHAPESHIFTER. Router (and its WAP) is PORTALS. My NAS is the only one that falls outside of this, it’s generically (last name)NetNAS. I should rename it, but I don’t want to break anything 😅

    Eta: changed my NAS’ hostname is ARCHITECT. Nothing broke! Yay for me.

  • dave@hal9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    8 months 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

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialEnglish
    0·
    8 months 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.

    • Exhume5947@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      In the past, I used Gimli’s family tree for server names. My main server was called “Thorin”. I think I had used Thrain and Gloin.

      These days I use Union generals from the civil war:

      Sherman - NAS, media server, nextcloud. Thomas - reverse proxy, adguard1. Ellsworth - arr stack. Sheridan - backup server. dockerhost01 - because naming your servers after their function makes a lot more sense.

  • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    8 months 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.

  • olenko@feddit.nlEnglish
    0·
    8 months 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

  • sandwichwhiplashparrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    I do marvel weapons/artifacts:

    Phone: Mjolnir

    Tablet: Stormbreaker

    Laptop: Darkhold

    Earbuds: I.C.E.R

    Backup NAS: EyeOfAgamotto

    Etc, etc 😅

  • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    I use Alps bigger peaks for the hosts like:

    • Castore
    • Polluce
    • Lyskamm
    • Gnifetti
    • etc.

    (yes, mainly from Monte Rosa) and smaller peaks for the VMs:

    • Grigna
    • Grignetta
    • Resegone
    • Cornizzolo
    • Palanzone
    • etc.