Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Mimicing a thread I saw elsewhere.
I generally use this list to name my machines: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_mythological_objects
For my main server I use loeding: a modified version of Lædingr, a chain forged by Thor to bind and were broken by Fenrir. (Norse Mythology)
Moxy does some Proxy
Cluster of the fuck
Boxxy
F8U12
Tumble me weed (laptop, not a server)
RPI4
Shuttle
Transporter
Orbiter
Oh, I had one ‘Shittle’ or something.
“rocinante” for my proxmox host.
“awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.” From don Quixote’s wiki page.
It seemed fitting considering it is a server built from old PC parts…engaged in tasks beyond its abilities.
The rest of my servers (VMs moslty) are named for what they actually do/which vlan they are on (eg vm15) and aren’t fun or excitin names. But at least I know if I am on that VM it has access to that vlan(or that it’s segregated from my other networks).
Currently s1 and t6. I’m not a fun person.
I don’t name my machines anything special, but I’ve started naming my internal hard drives/samba shares after planets, and external drives after moons.
Since I’m kinda fan of Terry Pratchett, I naturally have HEX at home.
my storage machine is luggage, and i use discworld names that kind of are relevant to the gunction for everything else in my network, too. my robot vacuums name is lu-tze for example.
Nice ones! Since it ain’t a server I haven’t mentioned it, but I had my WiFi ssids named CLACKS.
monokuma - my PC monomi - my Android phone monokid - my laptop monosuke - my PostmarketOS phone junko - main VPS mukuro - main local server hifumi - Jellyfin/*arr server
etc.
Butts. It hosts web applications. The public ones are on the domain “InButts.LOL” where the subdomain is more or less the application name.
Mine are all named after dairy products.
I have whey as the main docker host and first mon, milk as my main x86 osd, leben-{1,2} as more (arm64) osds, kumis-{1,2,3} as more (arm64) mons, kefir and ghee are old x86 mons (maybe Ill repurpose them as docker hosts someday. I have lassi-{1,2} as rpi 3b+ but they arent in use at the moment because I dont need them yet. Ive got pytia as my spine, and yoghurt as my edge, leaf is l2 so no hostname.
My main windows gaming pc is butter, the wifes pc is something similar but its not turned on and I cbf checking router logs.
When I was growing up, my dad had some sort of email server or ftp server or something for the university he taught at. I have childhood memories of trying in odin@[university].edu. My first fileserver at home was just called The Vault, but when I put together a dedicated VM server, it became Odin. The long term VMs that I host on there are named after some of the lesser Nordic gods. I also have a Pi running NginX for reverse proxy passing, so after the latest season finale of Loki, that seemed like an appropriate name for that device.
I call my server “the server”, “the shitbox”, or “the 36TB”, my pc “the PC”, and my surface… “the surface”. Creative, I know.
I got with Ancient Egyptian Deities for everything. (See: my username).
Not so much servers as removable media. Three letter creature names: ape, bat, cat, dog, elk, fox, gnu, hen, imp, jay, kit, lee (fish), mus, nan (from Inuit folklore), owl, pug, qua, rat, sas (from Slavic folklore) and so on (I need to find my printed list beyond here)
T: "Tay" (a mythical creature from Scottish folklore, often described as a small, elf-like being) U: "Ufi" (a legendary creature from Native American folklore, said to resemble a small humanoid figure) V: "Vim" (a mythical creature from Hindu mythology, sometimes depicted as a bird-like being) W: "Wyy" (inspired by the Wyvern, a legendary creature similar to a dragon but with only two legs) X: "Xin" (a mythical creature from Chinese mythology, often depicted as a lion-like beast) Y: "Yen" (a legendary creature from Vietnamese folklore, resembling a large, serpent-like creature) Z: "Ziz" (a mythical creature from Jewish mythology, described as a giant bird)
My servers/desktops are named after celestial bodies:
My mobile devices are named after space ships from sci-fi shows and the like:
Dang. Mine are named after ancient Gods, so my first Server was named Neptune too.
Welcome to the Club.
I have to admit I was doing the same but with the greek versions. Though I liked to throw in hydra’s and the like.
Years ago, I was in a University library and they had named all the printers after characters from the first three Star Wars movies.
I liked the idea of having a theme, so I use shark names. White, Blacktip, Mako, Hammerhead, etc etc.
Mine are all anime characters. Currently I have:
Chevy - Main server, rarely goes down unless I missed something on Ford
Ford - Test bed for Chevy. Questionable shit happens here.
UFO - primary desktop, most of the stuff happens here. Old Alienware case with new insides.
Streaming laptop - Sat, used for streaming from UFO.
Tron - VPN
I feel like UFO would make more sense for laptop due to it being portable, but I get it because the desktop is Alienware
I thought about making the desktop Mothership but that feels more like a server to me. Plus the original serial for the Alienware also had UFO in it.
Mine are named after fictional robots, computer programs, or AI. It started with my wifi being GLaDOS for 5 GHz and Wheatley for 2.4 GHz. I thought it was funny that everyone could immediately tell that Wheatley was the slower one. Over time, I continued the trend. My gaming PCs are named after characters from the Mega Man X series (desktop is Zero, laptop is X, steam deck is Sigma). My macs are named EVE and WALL-E. My server is named Sibyl System (from Psycho Pass).
My SYNOLOGY NAS that’s just shy of being used for too much stuff (96% CPU means I’ve got 4% left babyyyy) is, was, and will forever be: Senpai.
That way people (my wife and parents) notice it in the network list.
I use Futurama-based names. It started with my wifi network, which I named Zoidberg, because why not. The NAS is Infosphere, the media server is Hypnotoad, etc.
nuc because it is a nuc and I have no other server.
Pipi caca
Devices at home are named after Autobots and remote devices are named after Deceptions.
I try to pair the name with the use of the device. Example would be my NAS is named ironhide, VM host is named jetfire, and 1 of my VPS that acts as a reverse proxy is named barricade.
sol terra mars venus hubble nibiru voyager
groundcontrol (router) deepspacenetwork1 and 2 (wifi access points)
Where’s Major Tom?
The devices usually get some descriptor of what they look like…
For example I have:
Ant, Beetle, Caterpillar, Dragonfly
Server1, server2 and server 3
remnant, partially because it’s a frankestein of second hand from wallapop and dusted pieces from my old computers, partially as a weeb reference to the word of RWBY lol
ordellrb@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I had them once named after things ( mostly Ships) from Jules Verne Books: Nautilus, Albatross, Formentera, Duncan, Dobryna, Hansa.