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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.
Every computer I own is an autobot. My primary machine is always Optimus Prime, has been since 2008. Other machines get other names generally slightly inspired by their role / nature. Bumblebee and CliffJumper are miniPCs of various persuasions, Preceptor is my “mess around with AI” box, my big server that handles most of my data and network services is Wheeljack, my Macbook is Mirage, my backup server is Powerglide, my TV (which is an old Dell all in One running Linux Mint) is UltraMagnus.
References to The Dark Tower or Murakami characters.
The printer’s name is Marvin, from HHGTTG.
It never wants to work and always complains.
Asterix & Obelix themed. Asterix is a rpi4, strong and small with ssd running dockers with homeassistant, revproxy and webserver, and camera storage. Idefix is a rpi3, mainly test only nowadays. Obelix is my desktop running voidlinux. I used to have Pneumatix as the mail server and Panoramix as domoticz server, Heroix as firewall and Bellefleur as webserver, frontend, beauty etc 😉 all as LXD virtual servers on a pentium 3. Except for domoticz all are now dockers on Asterix, so less use of funny names. At work we used famous dogs. Laika, Pluto, Cerberus etc
All my hostnames are after Zen Buddhist concepts, like shikaku, hongaku, mushin, wuwei, jiyu, etc. My printer is the only thing that breaks this trend, it is named pos
Why not Saṃsāra?
My little pony. My pihole is pinkypie, mediaserver trottingham, homeassistant is ponyville, and my backup server is canterlot. And so on… :)
No.
Rock types and Greek gods. Everything from emerald to Aphrodite.
I have pebble, pabble, pibble, rebble, rabble, ribble and nibble.
Though the primary server is old enough that it was from a time when I named everything after Transformers, so it’s Shockwave.
pretty new setup but so far I’ve got
symmetra - synology dsm (nas) junkrat - intel nuc main server
need to name my desktop/laptop now and maybe networking gear. thinking ramattra for the router and zenyatta for the bridge
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.
I Used Gondolin for my PC but after reinstalling I didn’t put it back on and left the default
For my ProxMox server stuff I went with Lord of the Rings. The idea being the servers would be locations and the VMs would characters.
So right now my main server is Rivendell, and my PiHole on it is Gandalf (“You shall not pass!” Heehee eventually he’ll have OPNSense too…)
If I get HomeAssistant at some point, obviously that’ll be Samwise!
My Klipper VM for 3D printing is Celebrimbor, and the individual printers are named after various deities or myth figures of crafting/smithing/creativity like Brigid and Eitri.
For my client devices, I name my personal hardware after BattleTech mechs and that works well. It’s intuitive because I can line up various roles and weight classes.
So my main desktop is Timberwolf, and my laptops are named after light mechs like Kitfox or Mistlynx.
Phones and tablets I don’t really care about, they usually just name themselves after their model anyway. :)
I named mine after Rocket League cars.
Naming my devices after stars. Specifically stars in Ursa-Major
Desktop: alioth Laptop: alkaid Smartphone: alcor SteamDeck: dubhe Server: sarir
I go for the unoriginal but oh so simple: location-type-No
So HL-SRV-01 is “homelab server no 1”
HS-DSK-02 is “House desktop no2”
NA-LPT-01 is “Not Applicable” because this is my admin laptop that I expect to move around a lot so I always treat it as high-risk.
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-”
That’s hilarious. Now I wanna set up a Wi-Fi hotspot with that SSID at a local library or something for lulz.
“LG Dishwasher”.
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
fuck, this is way better than my current naming scheme of "customer-<devicepurpose>, I’m stealing it for my next setup.
I do the same but Egyptian
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
This is my scheme as well! Pretty much to the t. Except my HTPC is hypnotoad and nibbler is my NAS.
OMG Hypnotoad HTPC is so much better! Why didn’t I thnnk of that?
I usually name my devices after Greek gods and godesses; Artemis, Hermes, Metis, Athena, Apollo etc.
Shit I thought I was so damn novel. Blast you.
Lately planets, with disks named after moons. Not necessarily moons of the same planets the disks are plugged into.
When I worked at Microsoft they had all kinds of clusters - OurGang with Spanky, Darla, Alfalfa… Addams with Gomez etc, Disney with Mickey, etc.
Same, all celestial names.
I’m similar, but it’s internal drives are planets, while external drives are moons.
When I run out of the solar system I’m going to move on to Star Wars.
Nice. I might copy your idea.
localhost
Why: for privacy/anonymity concerns
Hmm, what does localhost.local do if you use mdns?
Fixes IP for me, but I admit I don’t have a lot of services to access to like OP does
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
What happens if you add another RPi?
I might rename them. So, e.g. if I’d add another Pi5, the existing one would become rpi5-1 and the new one rpi5-2.
I’m missing the rpi1 in that list. Please fix ASAP.
That one was called just rpi.domain.com, but didn’t stand the test of time…
I envy you so much
Wait until I tell you about all the small issues this zoo of devices brings with it… haha.
Three-letter names that can be typed with one hand, since I have to type them frequently.
$ egrep "^([qwertasdfgzxcvb]{3}|[yuiophjkllnm]{3})$" /usr/share/dict/words
Hmm, this wouldn’t work well for me since I use Dvorak. All the vowels are on the left and the most common consonants are on the right.
My consonant options on the left hand are: py (top) and jkxb (bottom).
Username checks out
? A and L are on opposite ends of the keyboard.
You have a mighty big hand if you reach l and a with the same one
Yes, yours too.
This is the way.
I started with pirates of the carribean, so…
blackpearl: main PC Redpearl: raspberry pi Purplepearl: refurbished laptop. The router is … router
The phone is zizidane (“donkey dick” in French, also playword on Zinedine Zidane).
I have three Proxmox nodes named:
acid1, freebones, and a partially decommissioned node aptly named pve
I have node named pve too. Small world.
Knowledge - Desktop Enlighten - Laptop Insanity - Server Madness - Router
Not gonna lie, 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
So many answers!!
First it was from planets from Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish cycle.
Now it’s the names of birds visiting my feeder: chickadee, titmouse, mockingbird, etc.
This is the most solar punk answer ever! XD Love it. That’s really neat. I struggle so much with naming schemes.
I use zerg units.
NAS is named Nydus Homelab with a GPU is Hydralisk Jail instance that I can use for random cron jobs is Drone
“Scale with more ProxMox nodes? Don’t you mean
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Hah, they’re TrueNAS BSD jails, but yes, now I need to figure out how to rename the “Jails” tab in my UI to overlords.
Also, all the extra work my self-hosting endeavors generate is “creep”.
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 😅
This is my favorite of the thread.
You can even call one Host, haha.
Nomad@infosec.pub 12 minutes ago
Used to be names from Neuromancer like “ono-sendai” and variations of that.
Now laptop is “flat”, server is named after it’s purpose like log, mail, mon, hosting, storage, etc.