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!
Desktop: 30p87 Laptop: 30p87-laptop Phone: 30p87-phone Server: 30p87-server DNS server at location bv: 30p87-dns-bv DNS server at location db: 30p87-dns-db
Very German of you.
Is that a new kind of masochism?
Markdown only inserting newlines on two spaces certainly is. Apart from that, only practical.
I didn’t meant the newlines. ^^
Jup. But they (or rather: their non-existence) are certainly an eyesore
Characters from the Murderbot Dairies, mostly
- main laptop (t480 currently) – Murderbot;
- previous main laptop (x270) – MB20;
- homeserver – ART;
- a TV box running armbian – Miki;
- t440p is currently Behemoth (from Bulgakov’s “Мастер и Маргарита”), although I’ll probably rename it to Holism;
- x230t – Three;
- a random thin client I occasionally use to test stuff is yogurt (from" love, death & robots"), not sure if I’ll rename them.
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
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!
- Knowledge - Desktop
- Enlighten - Laptop
- Insanity - Server
- Madness - Router
Gotta say, from what I’ve heard from the trenches, “insanity” and “madness” sound like fantastic names for printers or print servers, but the router also makes perfect sense! Lol
I use names of bones for my different serves. I have metacarpus, clavicle, femur and coccyx.
Ha! Clever and humerus!
I guess with planets it always comes down to that funny one at some point
Every computer I own is an autobot. My primary machine is always Optimus Prime, has been since 2008. Other machines get other names generally slightly inspired by their role / nature. Bumblebee and CliffJumper are miniPCs of various persuasions, Preceptor is my “mess around with AI” box, my big server that handles most of my data and network services is Wheeljack, my Macbook is Mirage, my backup server is Powerglide, my TV (which is an old Dell all in One running Linux Mint) is UltraMagnus.
For my servers I try to use names from the Final Fantasy universe. Lately been focusing on FFXI end game bosses.
Kirin (opnsense firewall) Byakko (proxmox host) Tiamat (proxmox backup) Shiva (Nas)
The only clever virtual machine names I care to brag about are: DockBox (VM running docker) Jellxc (proxmox lxc running jellyfin)
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 I used the names of the eldrazi from magic the gathering:
Ulamog: desktop PC Emrakul: NAS / Plex server name Kozilek: NUC mini PC
My laptop is called xontros-gatos, which in my native language means fat-cat. Similarly, my server is called server-cat, a small laptop that I have for testing stuff is called small-cat and a new laptop that I just got is called fatter-cat.
I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS
I bet your whole network is connected by CAT. :P
I went with Willow related naming.
My main server and NAS is Madmartigan. Proxmox server is Willow. Headless gaming machine is Sorsha. Bedroom/office laptop is Elora Danan Living room laptop is High Aldwin Then two raspberry Pi’s named Rool and Franjean.
I’m not even into Willow that much, I just wanted to find a world of characters I liked.
I use characters from whichever book I’m reading at the time. Examples:
- Arya: From ASOIAF, a small but powerful Ultrabook
- Cthulhu: From HP Lovecraft, a huge 17" laptop
- Horus: From the Horus Heresy books, A powerful laptop
- Binky: Death’s white horse from discworld, a white desktop
- Peaches: A rat that always carries a book with her. My home server
I go for the unoriginal but oh so simple: location-type-No
So HL-SRV-01 is “homelab server no 1”
HS-DSK-02 is “House desktop no2”
NA-LPT-01 is “Not Applicable” because this is my admin laptop that I expect to move around a lot so I always treat it as high-risk.
I have three Proxmox nodes named:
acid1
,freebones
, and a partially decommissioned node aptly namedpve
acid1 was named from a sticker I got in a big collection. I was extra sold on the name when I did some research into acid1 tests.
freebones is from an inside joke from a GPT3.5 bot I terribly finetuned using my friend groups entire chat history. At one point the bot randomly said “algebra: you get free bones” and I kind of just ran with that
I have node named pve too. Small world.