Mimicing a thread I saw elsewhere.
I generally use this list to name my machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mythological_objects
For my main server I use loeding: a modified version of Lædingr, a chain forged by Thor to bind and were broken by Fenrir. (Norse Mythology)
My stuff is named after planets / ships in Star wars.
Server is coruscant
Desktop is malastare
Laptop is anaxes
Portable hard drives are ships
My router is called Jupiter, everything connected to it is named after a moon. Callisto, Ganymede, Thelxinoe, Kallichore are what I’m currently using.
Nice try, NSA.
Let’s invent password reveal day instead.
web01, web02, … db01, db02, … api01, api02, …
You get the idea.
My Raspberry Pi is named ‘raspberrypi’. I’m very creative.
Similar to my scheme:
laptop = “laptop”
nas = “nas”
router = “router”Then if there are more than one in each category I use nas-0, nas-1, etc.
Just as creative as my server called proxmox.
This has big “lol tell me your mother’s maiden name and your first pet and I’ll tel you what Harry Potter house you belong to!” Energy.
My Proxmox server is called ARCADE and each VM is named after a game. Currently we have:
- SpyHunter (PiHole and WireGuard VPN)
- Pacman (Ubuntu Server w/ Dashy, Syncthing, Portainer, and NextCloud inside Docker)
- MsPacMan (Ubuntu server for failover purposes. Still under construction)
- CrazyTaxi (Windows Desktop)
- MissleCommand (Linux Desktop)
- MonkeyIsland (qBitTorrent)
SpyHunter was a great game (the 3D ones). I still have both (?) for Playstation.
I started with the 2D arcade game of course. Both 3D games (SpyHunter and SpyHunter: Nowhere to Run) are solid as well
I’ve played the 2D very briefly, but it was before my time so I lack the nostalgia and interest. Seeing the car transform was freaking awesome at the time, so futuristic. I was a kid back then and obtaining all secondary objectives was legitimately hard, but provided replay value.
I’d really like to see another, but I don’t know if whoever has the IP has any interest, or is even in business anymore.
I had them once named after things ( mostly Ships) from Jules Verne Books: Nautilus, Albatross, Formentera, Duncan, Dobryna, Hansa.
I don’t have many now, just minstrel (it plays music) but previously they’ve always just be sounds. Rawr, groan, whimper, bark, moan, growl etc.
Except minstrel (it plays music) :p
OK what is whimper’s job?
whimper was a dovecot and postfix machine. Email isn’t very fun
I see :-)
Normally I don’t change the names that the distribution gives to the hostname, but I’ve been thinking for a while about changing the names to mythological gods or Latin tree names only for server and SBC.
The only server for which I have changed the host name is now
r5700server.r5700for the processor (Ryzen 7 5700), andserverbecause it’s a server.Oh dang. How fun. I never even considered thematically making my machines! Mine are super mundane.
- machine - main server
- osmc - Kodi media box for tv
- kmac - old iMac running kde neon
- tunnelpi - raspberry pi 4 wireguard tunnel access point
- mini- Mac mini my wife uses for day to day use.
Now I’m going to have to find a theme and start renaming machines! I might go with Magic the Gathering as my theme.
Edit: formatting, and added MtG as potential theme
Edit 2: fixed stupid autocorrect error (theatrically to thematically)
My partner and I came up with animal names for hostnames. The first server shall be ‘bee’
My tangible servers and clients have people’s names
My system components VMs have mythology names.
My non prod VMs have identifiable names like routeros, debiangui etc.
Fun stuff are my smart vacuums, I give them old women names from different countries. My very first one was Consuela, thinking of Family Guy.
My first server was a used Dell r420, so I named it Pyrocumulus, after clouds that form over fires or volcanoes
As a huge fan of Star Wars content from before Disney got involved and poisoned it (notable exceptions of Rogue One, Andor, some of the animated shows, etc.), I utilize warship names from the Expanded Universe (now called “Legends”) - what I like to call True Star Wars.
My main server is Chimaera. My backup server that also performs as an NVR is Lusankya. My separate mostly-NAS server away from my server rack is Admonitor.
I have sci-fi themed names (not all Star Wars - two other franchises represented here, virtual kudos to those who can identify) for the storage pools too (using TrueNAS SCALE on all three servers):
- Chimaera (Main Server)
- Star-Forge (Apps/VM Pool)
- Holocron (Data Pool)
- Lusankya (Backup + NVR Server)
- Shadow-Broker (Apps Pool)
- Resurrection (Backup Pool)
- Spynet (NVR Pool)
- Admonitor (NAS Server)
- Mount-Tantiss (Apps Pool)
- Datacron (Data Pool)
- Chimaera (Main Server)
