What’s everyone’s server naming scheme?
I name everything after celestial objects. Stars, galaxies, constellations, and nebula are all good sources of names. Not the ones with the random number names, stuff like Andromeda and Sirius
Haven't been as busy as you guys, but still wanted to show off
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NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 2 months ago
Culture ships.
Limiting Factor and Cargo Cult are desktops.
Empiricist and Sense amid Madness, Wit Amdist Folly are a NAS and NUC that runs everything I need
Its a great variety of memorable names.
(And even though Elon keeps naming things after them, he hasn’t fucking read the books.)
Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 months ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters LXC Linux Containers NAS Network-Attached Storage NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers Plex Brand of media server package VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
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folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I don’t have enough machines to have a scheme lol
- My gaming PC/game streaming server is “Orthanc” cause well… It’s a computer tower.
- My NAS/Plex/*arr server is “lil-nas-x”, cause it’s built out of a small form factor NAS
- My personal devices are boringly named “ModelName-ABC”, ABC replaced with my actual initials. Same for my wife’s and kids’ devices.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago My name scheme is song names. I listen to allot of folk rock, so some names are hollowmoon or foxlore.
Its a little spicier than anas or pnas
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago Man I wish I spent time actually learning Proxmox, instead dumped everything into a headless Debian VM and called it a day.
- EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s AWESOME, I also named my NAS Atlas … because it carries the weight of all my backups
Good call on those names, you’re giving me some pretty cool ideas for my next servers
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I name mine after greek and roman gods.
My NAS is bamed Hestia, the goddess of the bearth and home.
My docker server is called Poseidon due to the sea iconography of docker. My second iteration of my docker server where I tried playing around with podman I called Neptune.
I briefly had a Raspberry Pi for experimenting with some stuff which was called Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth.
My Proxmox machine on which pretty much all ky other servers are run as VMs is called Atlas, as the Titan holding up my personal network.
I also have a truenas VM which I boringly called truenas…
1984@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I named a lot of my machines hackbox…
Simyon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I personally name my servers after Rain World iterators and creatures. I fear the day when I run out of names.
- EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are a TON of different tutorials and videos.
If you’re looking for a beginner friendly interface for your servers; I recommend “Cockpit” you just “sudo apt-get install cockpit” and it gives you a nice to use web interface to manage most of your servers, you can then install plugins as needed, for example you can install net bird or Pangolin to make it accessible from the internet.
If you want something more like what I’m doing here (Virtualization) you can try Canonical’s version of this which runs on ubuntu, They’re called LXD canonical.com/lxd/manage
Basically they’re tiny ritualized linux instances inside of your main ubuntu server (Containers) with their own kernel so that changes on the base server don’t bother your other apps.
dimjim@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I went with a SciFi ship theme, my main server is VMS-HORIZON (Virtual Machine Ship). The VMs have ship component names like AUDIO-CORE (navidrome) and VISUAL-CORE (Immich).
My Raspberry Pi is named ORBITER, like a orbiting shuttle/satellite, and the VM it has is called BEACON (for Gotify)
- EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
- EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
🤣 do you switch to elf names after the first 12?
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 months ago You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen. Comet, and Cupid, and Donner, and Blitzen…
- EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Close, LCC. I do have a portrainer instance for docker images, but I like the extra control that San lxc gives you
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Utility mostly. My music stack vm is Music. Reversy is my reverse proxy. Photos? Yup that my immich vm. I’m boring lol
[Servicename]-ctr for containers
[OS/arch]-dev dev vms
That's about it.