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!

  • hindy@mbin.lovetux.net
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    4 days ago

    Hello!

    Well I’m having the following hostnames on my LAN:

    • betelgeuse (Beelink server with Proxmox)
    • altair (an another Beelink server with Proxmox)
    • eudora (outgoing SMTP server)
    • polaris (my laptop)
    • epsilon (my desktop)

    Have fun!

  • Legoraft@reddthat.com
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    9 days ago

    I use the names of greek deities for my host names, mostly geared towards the function of the server/computer.

    • Nyx (dark-blue laptop)
    • Hypnos (gaming machine)
    • Argus (pi-hole and reverse proxy)
    • Prometheus (minecraft server)
  • Zag010@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    I self-host for learning and fun. So I name my home servers with the car names.

    Server Hostname car name
    RaspberryPi cooper Mini Cooper
    Old Laptop Raptor Ford F150 Raptor
    PC Hummer Hummer
  • lunchbox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 days ago

    I originally named all my hardware after members of the Wu-Tang Clan plus some close affiliates, but I actually ran out of names, so now I use MFDOOM aliases for my workstations, and keep Wu-Tang for infrastructure, because it’s for the children.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    I just memorise the IPs lmao. then again I only have 1 or 2 hosts up on my network ever

  • shiftymccool@programming.dev
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    7 days ago

    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 - management, monitoring
    • Douglas - vm - Home Assistant stack
    • Basement - vm - development server
  • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    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
  • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    I take a word that’s related to the purpose of the new host and put it in an online translator and cycle through languages until I get something cool.

  • clif@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    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.

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        3 days ago

        Yeah… I should expand. The penguins are just my favorite part of those movies and it matches the Linux motif that I started with yet falls apart, you know, when I name a windows laptop rico-w : P