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  • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

    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!

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    #103

    My personal use devices are all some variation of Pingu (eg. iPingu, Pingtendo etc.), and my NAS devices are based off Pokémon puns (Storlax and Archivysaur currently).

    My wife on the other hand is boring, so her’s are just system default.

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      I use Roman gods. Juno, Jupiter, Pluto, etc. I have a beelink minipc that I named Mellona, the Roman goddess of honey 😆

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      #104

      I use Egyptian gods!

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        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

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        I do the same but Egyptian

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        • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

          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!

          S This user is from outside of this forum
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          wrote on last edited by
          #106

          Well I use concepts of games I like. Right now Alan Wake and Pacific Drive are the two of them.

          • Main Laptop: Typewriter
          • Steam deck: Poet
          • NAS: The Lake
          • Main Pc, that has become more a render station since I mostly work on a laptop and game on a steam deck: Lighthouse
          • Hue Hub: Light switch
          • Phone: Flashlight

          But when I started to be more interested in networking and installed openwrt on my router, I was more infatuated by Pacific Drive:

          • Router: Outer Containment Wall
          • WiFi 5/2.4 Dual: ARDAnet
          • WiFi for iot: RemnantNet
          • GuestNet: OEZone
          • VPN: BreacherNet
          • Switch: SparkTower
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          • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

            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!

            S This user is from outside of this forum
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            wrote on last edited by
            #107

            I use "butler" terms, like:

            • Jarvis
            • Archibald - used for my old Arch desktop
            • Alfred

            They serve me well, and I give them due respect.

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            • sxan@midwest.socialS [email protected]

              Huh. I thought for sure someone else would be using my scheme.

              LAN computers are all Tolkien swords: sting, orcrist, gurthang, glamdring, etc. If I run out of swords, I'll start adding other weapons: aeglost, the spear; dailir, the arrow. We don't get a lot of named battle axes, which I always thought weird; I'd think dwarves of all people would forge legendary axes, and certainly name them.

              My WiFi and VPN networks are forests in Middle Earth: fangorn, bindbole, dimholt, lothlorien, etc. The only exception is my LAN itself which is... "lan". Because short.

              My cloud VPSes are named after Greek Titans: hyperion, phaethusa, tethys, etc.

              Mobile devices have whatever names they come with, because they're so ephemeral.

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              #108

              I like your schema. I've used something similar. My hosts have always been sci-fi space/time ships/stations, user accounts are characters from or Captain's of said vessels. Over the years I've had a TARDIS, Serenity, Moya, Out of Bands II, Galactica, Millennium Falcon, Rocinante, etc. It's usually whatever I happen to be discovering or binging at the time I setup the machine. For nearly a decade the TARDIS was my server/NAS because it was bigger on the inside that survived through several generations of smaller devices like laptops and raspberry Pi's named after smaller lighter vessels like Serenity and Rocinante.

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                Well I use concepts of games I like. Right now Alan Wake and Pacific Drive are the two of them.

                • Main Laptop: Typewriter
                • Steam deck: Poet
                • NAS: The Lake
                • Main Pc, that has become more a render station since I mostly work on a laptop and game on a steam deck: Lighthouse
                • Hue Hub: Light switch
                • Phone: Flashlight

                But when I started to be more interested in networking and installed openwrt on my router, I was more infatuated by Pacific Drive:

                • Router: Outer Containment Wall
                • WiFi 5/2.4 Dual: ARDAnet
                • WiFi for iot: RemnantNet
                • GuestNet: OEZone
                • VPN: BreacherNet
                • Switch: SparkTower
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                #109

                You are missing the Muse for your Poet. 😄

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLxb7m0j5Jg

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                • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

                  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!

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                  wrote on last edited by
                  #110

                  Uhg y'all actually have creative names, here are mine:

                  My homelab - Pero-base
                  My main PC - Pero-main
                  My laptop - Pero-portable
                  My other server - Pero-web

                  I swear I'm not a narcissist.

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                  • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

                    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!

                    cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneC This user is from outside of this forum
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                    #111

                    im very lazy now but i used to use tyrande, shandris, and then rotate around any other kalimidor/kaldorei places and people because when i played warcraft i was obsessed with night elves

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                    • sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zoneS [email protected]

                      I wouldn't say my hostnames are very creative, but they all have some kind of backstory.

                      Main desktop: POwOful
                      It's a pretty powerful desktop, so why not call it that 🙂

                      Laptop: LenOwO
                      Can you guess the laptop brand?

                      Server 1: Shitbox
                      It's my first server box I ever built, so it's underpowered and pretty shitty.

                      Server 2: Stowage
                      My proper server with actual data parity, and it's pretty powerful

                      Server 3: Jank
                      This one is another shitmix of hardware with random harddrives in raid 0. I am aware that they'll die at some point, and all of that data stored on it will be lost, so i use it as temporary storage whenever I need to copy something from one machine to another.

                      Robot vacuum: suckywucky
                      Yea....

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                      LenOwO

                      LenUwU

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                      • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

                        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!

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                        #113

                        I use lore from Starcitizen (planet name, space station, satellite, etc.)

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                        • ? Guest

                          This is my favorite of the thread.

                          You can even call one Host, haha.

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                          #114

                          Shit, you're right!

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                          • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

                            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!

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                            wrote on last edited by
                            #115

                            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.

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                            • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

                              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!

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                              #116

                              I use names of bones for my different serves. I have metacarpus, clavicle, femur and coccyx.

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                              • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

                                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!

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                                wrote on last edited by
                                #117

                                I named mine after different Half Life characters:
                                GMAN- Server
                                FREEMAN- Main Gaming Rig
                                ALYX- Laptop

                                And so on...

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                                • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

                                  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!

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                                  #118

                                  My home network is called The IT Clowd with these devices:
                                  Moss - physical server
                                  Roy - physical server
                                  Jen - vm - main docker host
                                  Richmond - vm - *arr stack
                                  Denholm - vm - monitoring, logging
                                  Douglas - vm - Home Assistant stack
                                  Basement - vm - development server

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                                  • D [email protected]

                                    Y'all are too creative for me... I have:

                                    • poweredge-r520-0
                                    • poweredge-t620-0
                                    • poweredge-t620-1
                                    • pi4-0
                                    • pi3b-0
                                    • pi3b-1
                                    • pi3b-2
                                    • pi3b-3
                                    • vostro-3525-0
                                    • ideapad-c340-0
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                                    #119

                                    This is basically how I do it too.

                                    I used to be more creative but then I got in the habit of running more servers and swapping hardware more frequently so it got harder to remember what hardware I was actually connecting to. Now they get hardware based names and everything else is named by service-based Ansible roles.

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                                    • S [email protected]

                                      Well I use concepts of games I like. Right now Alan Wake and Pacific Drive are the two of them.

                                      • Main Laptop: Typewriter
                                      • Steam deck: Poet
                                      • NAS: The Lake
                                      • Main Pc, that has become more a render station since I mostly work on a laptop and game on a steam deck: Lighthouse
                                      • Hue Hub: Light switch
                                      • Phone: Flashlight

                                      But when I started to be more interested in networking and installed openwrt on my router, I was more infatuated by Pacific Drive:

                                      • Router: Outer Containment Wall
                                      • WiFi 5/2.4 Dual: ARDAnet
                                      • WiFi for iot: RemnantNet
                                      • GuestNet: OEZone
                                      • VPN: BreacherNet
                                      • Switch: SparkTower
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                                      #120

                                      So you wanna tell me your NAS is a Data Lake? ;D

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                                      • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

                                        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!

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                                        #121

                                        I’ve always done characters from Beatles songs

                                        • Walrus
                                        • Martha
                                        • Her-Majesty
                                        • Submarine
                                        • MissLizzy
                                        • Blackbird
                                        • NowhereMan
                                        • SgtPepper
                                        • Jojo
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                                        • O [email protected]

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

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                                          #122

                                          Where's Demogorgon?

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