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!

  • Great Blue@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    9 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
    3·
    9 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
    2·
    9 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.

  • HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    Characters from the Murderbot Dairies, mostly

    • main laptop (t480 currently) – Murderbot;
    • previous main laptop (x270) – MB20;
    • homeserver – ART;
    • a TV box running armbian – Miki;
    • t440p is currently Behemoth (from Bulgakov’s “Мастер и Маргарита”), although I’ll probably rename it to Holism;
    • x230t – Three;
    • a random thin client I occasionally use to test stuff is yogurt (from" love, death & robots"), not sure if I’ll rename them.
  • JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    9 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
      1·
      9 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”.

  • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    I name my devices after greek gods based on what I’m going in life at the time or after what their purpose is.

    I named my first gaming PC “Poseidon” when I was doing ship related work. Now it’s my server.

    My gaming PC is “Asclepius”, the Greek god of healing. Built when I got into healthcare.

    Hermes, god of messeges, is my lil pi that helps with routing (pihole, pivpn, nginx).

    My HTPC is Dionysus, Greek god of wine and parties.

    My thinkpad is Persephone cus it looks good but doesn’t do much. I might rename it.

    The services that I run on these are just named “device-service” e.g. hermes-nginx

  • SnachBarr@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    I’ve always done characters from Beatles songs

    • Walrus
    • Martha
    • Her-Majesty
    • Submarine
    • MissLizzy
    • Blackbird
    • NowhereMan
    • SgtPepper
    • Jojo
  • lorentz@feddit.itEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Devices are named after characters from books I recently read, trying to match the name with the character of the book. But for virtual hosts for services I use their purpose (wiki, files, feed…) because I wasted too much time updating all the bookmarks last time I migrated to a new server.

  • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 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.
  • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 months 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

  • mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    9 months 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

  • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 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.