What host names do you use?

[sxan@midwest.social]

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.

[med@sh.itjust.works]

It's the right move.

I tell you, the first time you're sat in front of a CEO and an auditor and you have to explain why the big list of servers has a highlighted one called C-NT-PRIK-5 is when the fun stops.

Explaining that it's short for 'customer network tester Mr. Prickles 5', and is actually a cacti server never really seems to help the situation.

At least a few of the customers got a laugh out of it being on the reports!

[med@sh.itjust.works]

You're a monster. My scps would go nowhere

[cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de]

I envy you so much

[thynecaptain@lemmy.world]

Man I do variations of food truck that don’t exist. Example.
Gaming pc : food station
Phone:food truck
Laptop: foodpad
Server:foodcentre

[cymor@midwest.social]

I'm a fan of Composers.
Current and past servers

• Bach
  • B.W.V. 565
  • B.W.V. 1067
  • B.W.V. 906
• Mozart
• Williams
• Goldsmith
• Zimmer
• Arnold
• Poledouris

New ones will be

• Giacchino
• Melumad

[waggz@programming.dev]

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

[gravitywell@sh.itjust.works]

Cthulhu (primary server)
Azathoth (backup server)
Nyarlathotep (main laptop)
Shodan (router)
Theseus (rebuilt thinkpas x220)
Blip & Blop (tvs)

[peregus@lemmy.world]

I use Alps bigger peaks for the hosts like: Castore, Polluce, Lyskamm, Gnifetti, etc. (yes, mainly from Monte Rosa) for the hosts and smaller peaks for the VMs: Grigna, Grignetta, Resegone, Cornizzolo, Palanzone, etc.)

[Guest]

Places in video games is one option for me especially in cluster setups. EG cluster Tamriel has nodes Morrowind, Skyrim, Oblivion, etc.

[emerald@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I tend to use the names of angels for my personal devices (which surprisingly was inspired by this and not NGE)

For laptops I tend to use demons instead, just seems to fit better (which actually was inspired by Gundam IBO but this is the list)

For example:

• desktop (Linux side) is Raziel
• desktop (windows side ) is Azrael
• main laptop is Gusion
• eBay Thinkpad is Barbatos

[hakunawazo@lemmy.world]

Yes, yours too.

[hakunawazo@lemmy.world]

Naming scheme like John Wick with his dog.

[sheldan@lemmy.world]

I have been using Uranus moons for all my devices.

[whyausername_1@lemmy.world]

I use characters from Haikyu and Thor.

I have asahi, hinata, daichi and heimdal running.

[Guest]

This is my favorite of the thread.

You can even call one Host, haha.

[jolteon@lemmy.zip]

I usually use pokémon, typically from the first few generations.

[oisteink@feddit.nl]

You have a mighty big hand if you reach l and a with the same one

[sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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....

[daporkchop_@lemmy.ml]

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