What host names do you use?

[tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden]

Hardware hosts usually get a mix of hardware description and main use, e.g. en old Esprimo with Proxmox is esprimox. Virtual hosts are garden themed - auth server is mycel, monitoring will be called canopy once I move it, VM with lots of docker stuff is garden etc.

[smiletolerantly@awful.systems]

Named mine after "objects" from Iain M. Banks' Culture Novels.

Currently I have:

• gsv
• hub
• excession
• drone

Nice and short, and map roughly to the "power level" of the hardware, so to speak.

And my Yubikeys are named after Special Circumstances agents

[lnxtx@feddit.nl]

Not yet

I had a scunthorpe.

[otacon239@lemmy.world]

Omnigon: refers to my network and server overall
Terragon: Utility desktop
Pyrogon: Gaming desktop
Aquagon: Laptop
Aerogon: Phone
Sonogon: RPi sound server
Minigon: Cyberdeck

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

My media server is called "The_Nexus."

My phone when I host anything on it is "The Hackinator 9000" because I think it would be funny for a normie to see and freak out.

[7toed@midwest.social]

Ubiquitous and Tiamat are my servers, Polyglotal for my home assistant voice endpoint, and some more. Points for the reference

[Guest]

They're all some kind of machine.
Steam deck: SteamMachineryV1
PC: ArchMachineryV2
Phone: Android_μMachine

Oddly enough my server goes by MonoVerse, which I named first and I guess it just stuck.

[cron@feddit.org]

I'm missing the rpi1 in that list. Please fix ASAP.

[Guest]

They're all some kind of machine.
Steam deck: SteamMachineryV1

PC: ArchMachineryV2

Phone: Android_μMachine

Oddly enough my server goes by MonoVerse, which I named first and I guess it just stuck.

[thejml@lemm.ee]

Current homelab+desktop+laptop host count here is 22. All anime characters or references. It’s a fairly large pool to pull from, so it’s worked for me for 20+ years now. Mobile devices (phones, tablets, etc) and game consoles aren’t really as clever though.

All of them are in a piHole DNS though so no host files keeps it easy to track. Services have names that mostly are just what they are though and cnames to the matching host that hosts them (or load balancer, whatever)

[lorentz@feddit.it]

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.

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

I name based on OS and location.

fedoraDesktop
fedoraLaptop
fedoraServer
fedoraSchoolServer
unraid
qnap
ubuntuServer

[asparagus0098@sh.itjust.works]

I use some generic names.

• Phone: phone
• Current Laptop: fedora
• Old laptop: laptop
• Router: openwrt

[irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I use Arthurian legend related stuff. Servers and desktops are locations. My portable devices are the names of swords. IoT devices are more explicitly descriptive since I won't need to type in, but it's more important to recognize them when I see them, like lightswitch-livingroom.

[Guest]

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.

[letsgo2themall@lemmy.world]

I name mine after space! Earth, Moon, Mars, Saturn, etc...

[Guest]

Man I’m lame.

Used to be {env}-function##

Now it’s {env}-{vlanlocation}-function##

VLAN location such as DMZ, Infra, Jump for jump boxes, IOTSec or IOTInsec, Etc

[Guest]

I think a similar post came few time ago, but no ashamed in my case.
I use late pet names, for me as a tribute to their memory. Also, I try to put some logic in the name, like the squirrel name for a lightweight VM with not much services / workload or dog name for the reverse proxy (guardian function).

[Guest]

AI from fiction:

HAL
M.O.T.H.E.R
AM
Jarvis

[Guest]

At home at least try to put some meaning, but at corporate environments as some have mention I gonwithbthe classical location-function-environment-XXX ^_^U