What host names do you use?
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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 & kroxCreative, 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.
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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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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 & kroxCreative, 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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
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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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.
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
You are missing the Muse for your Poet.
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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 & kroxCreative, 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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
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-webI swear I'm not a narcissist.
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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 & kroxCreative, 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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
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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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 powerfulServer 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....LenOwO
LenUwU
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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 & kroxCreative, 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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
I use lore from Starcitizen (planet name, space station, satellite, etc.)
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Shit, you're right!
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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 & kroxCreative, 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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
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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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 & kroxCreative, 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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
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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 & kroxCreative, 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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
I named mine after different Half Life characters:
GMAN- Server
FREEMAN- Main Gaming Rig
ALYX- LaptopAnd so on...
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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 & kroxCreative, 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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
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 -
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
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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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
So you wanna tell me your NAS is a Data Lake? ;D
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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 & kroxCreative, 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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
Iโve always done characters from Beatles songs
- Walrus
- Martha
- Her-Majesty
- Submarine
- MissLizzy
- Blackbird
- NowhereMan
- SgtPepper
- Jojo
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Omnigon: refers to my network and server overall
Terragon: Utility desktop
Pyrogon: Gaming desktop
Aquagon: Laptop
Aerogon: Phone
Sonogon: RPi sound server
Minigon: CyberdeckWhere's Demogorgon?
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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 & kroxCreative, 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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
All of my infrastructure is named after terminator.
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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.
In the past, I used Gimli's family tree for server names. My main server was called "Thorin". I think I had used Thrain and Gloin.
These days I use Union generals from the civil war:
Sherman - NAS, media server, nextcloud
Thomas - reverse proxy, adguard1
Ellsworth - arr stack
Sheridan - backup server
dockerhost01 - because naming your servers after their function makes a lot more sense. -
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 & kroxCreative, 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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
Rlyeh -host/nas
Cthulhu
Yog
Yibb
Hastur
Hotep
Cylitha
