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!

  • Piranha PhishEnglish
    4•2 months ago

    The printer’s name is Marvin, from HHGTTG.

    It never wants to work and always complains.

  • LegoraftEnglish
    4•2 months 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)
  • @[email protected]English
    3•2 months 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.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•2 months ago

    Server (big iron): Bender

    Desktop (main character): Fry

    Laptop (for accounting): Hermes

    Netbook (small and dumb): Nibbler

    Phone (held to my head): BrainSlug

    HTPC (one big viewport): Leela

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 months ago

    My little pony. My pihole is pinkypie, mediaserver trottingham, homeassistant is ponyville, and my backup server is canterlot. And so on… :)

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 months ago

      Hmm, what does localhost.local do if you use mdns?

      Also, your router must be a bit confusing:

      • localhost - 192.168.1.2
      • localhost - 192.168.1.3
      • …
  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 months ago

    Three-letter words that can be typed with one hand, since I have to type them frequently.

    $ egrep "^([qwertasdfgzxcvb]{3}|[yuiophjkllnm]{3})$" /usr/share/dict/words
  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 months ago

    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

  • caseyweedermanEnglish
    2•2 months 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.

  • The Bard in GreenEnglish
    2•2 months ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 months ago

    I’ve always done characters from Beatles songs

    • Walrus
    • Martha
    • Her-Majesty
    • Submarine
    • MissLizzy
    • Blackbird
    • NowhereMan
    • SgtPepper
    • Jojo
  • wiaEnglish
    1•2 months ago

    Used to be astronomy based. Sol for actual network and then planets and stellar bodies and stuff. But I have so many devices now.

    Now I just make it ass informative with as free letters as possible. Almost everything is 3 or 4 letters long.

    So like fsrv for file server, msvr for media server and so on.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 months ago

    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