i'm not good with names.
my server's name is... server
i'm not good with names.
my server's name is... server
poweredge-t620-0
poweredge-t620-1
poweredge-r520-0
macbook-2011
pi-0
through pi-3
having read all these other comments, i'm now feeling like i should come up with a more creative naming scheme... for what it's worth, my phone is named bob
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I don't name my computers, but usually name my OS drive Brain and the media drive Pinky.
Servers and computers get Ankh-Morpork street names.
The robot vacuum cleaner is GLaDOS.
Damnit, I'm boring af. Machines are named by their model for laptops/consumer devices and buy their CPU for home built stuff.
Except for Crimson-Binome.local 🏴☠️
Desktop: Cerberus (triple monitors)
Media server: Alexandria
Firewall: Hadrian
All my servers are named after colors
Then my vms are ingredients to an omelette
I once named a load of servers for a helicopter company in the UK with elements. The cluster nodes were copper, silicon, etc. The cluster itself was called iron. The volumes were labelled fe_function.
It worked - it was easy to read and the bits that implied "cluster" were grouped appropriately. All the other servers had random elemental names unless they were associated in some way, in which case the group would be used. The engineers (real engineers with oil or distressingly nasty lubricants in their veins) loved it - it made sense, without being too quirky. It was very legible.
When those systems were hoicked out and replaced, the usual nonsense was applied: 2 char country code + 2 char site code etc etc ad nauseam. Followed by my absolute pet hate: 01. Oh so you might need 99 domain controllers? Yes you might, but not on one site.
Let's face it, it is mostly AD admins who don't get hostnames. I blame MS - their docs and blogs strive to be ... authoritative or at least look so. An entire generation (possibly two) of sysadmins have been sold up the river by MS and their wankery.
I completely agree with the "01" problem, it should be "001".
Single digit is great but then one service needs more than ten, or you keep rolling them over into new ones (one of our production server is 13 because it's the thirteen generation). But then I want all the numbers of have consistent patterns, so if one has two digits, they all have to have it.
But I'm not allowed to name servers anymore.
I feel like I can't be the only immature one here...
My NAS is called AY-NAS.
I've got a bunch of Rpis named things like DANK-SBC, WONK-SBC and RAW-SBC.
@[email protected] @[email protected] some version of cat sounds: meowmeow, purrpurr, naunau, etc.
Really uncreative, but: $myInitials-desktop $myInitials-server $myInitials-laptop
With my username being…. $myInitials. Surprising, really. Boring, but consistent. :)
Oh god.
Mine are:
I used fictional locations:
Users are named after movies or tv shows characters when I'm not using my name
My personal use computers are named after characters from the manga Tearmoon Empire Story, MiaLuna (storage server) - Anne (home desktop) - Ludwig (laptop).
My phones were named after JJBA characters (Jonathan Joestar - Joseph Joestar - Speedwagon)
Small form factor computers for automation are typically named after their purpose, without anything creative (PiMirrorDNS, PineKodi, PiPocket)
My Nas is named Optimus my Mac Plex server is named Macsimus
My stationary devices are named after evil characters from middle earth, ungoliant, gothmog, morgoth etc. Mobile devices are named after good characters, illuvatar, gil-galad, elendil. My dad uses native American tribes for names.
Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
Nobody has said it... so I have to say it
Cattle not pets!
All my machines are named 'localhost', welcome to 127.0.0.1 farms
Some farmers name their cattle
Everything starts with rum, like my username, for some reason. My phone is "rumpixel" and my desktop is called "rumtower".
But your username starts with rut not rum.
Look, @[email protected] was a little drunk when they chose their username, ok?
My Proxmox server is named Atlas, as the titan holding up my network.
My VMs on the proxmox server are named:
I also have a raspberry pi running for testing out some stuff. It's named Eileithyia after the greek goddess of birth.
framepuncher for the desktop
smolmac for the macmini running all the things that would be more at home on an rpi if the mac hadn't been 50 bucks when pi's were in three digits
the nas is Steve, formerly Ralph. Ralph became the router.
I like to have different naming schemes for different device classes.
Desktop computers: Greek gods
Laptops: Elements of the periodic table
Cloud servers: Norse gods
Home servers: Planets of the solar system
Raspberry Pis: Greek titans
My servers have names of Spanish words humorist El Risitas says in his mythical video where he laughs with no real reason.
The biggest server is named "cocinero", because I can (jokingly) easily imagine a very fat cook.
Then there is plancha, a lenovo thinkcentre which has the size of a plank.
My raspberry pi's have names of tapas: chorizo, keso etc.
I name mine after Futurama characters because there's a lot of them and I found a cool icon set to use.
Previously by color/occupation.
Red Desktop, Music Workstation.
Been thinking themes more recently though. WolvesDen for my server, thinking of expanding on that some.
My main PC is all white (by coincidence) so I named it Minas Tirith
My laptops and RPis aren't named anything interesting. My server is named Lyla though. I let my youngest kid pick the name.
I name them after their case or purpose. My truenas is just called truenas, its plex jail is just called plex, my laptops are yoga and starlite because those are their product line names. Desktop is frame because it uses a masterframe 700.
I am not very imaginative with naming things. And when I do get imaginative I just appear to have a mental disorder. My BG3 characters are Scrimpus, Scrompus, and Screeper.
My personal PCs/VMs are named after fairies from Pixie Hollow. (Silvermist, Zarina, Rosetta)
I've got menus and stuff orange on Rosetta. :)
London Underground themed. Where possible the station name somewhat reflects the purpose of the machine. Some names are shortened.
Wireless access points named as DLR stations.
Network hardware named as Underground lines.
Station names can be chosen based on their zone to indicate physical location. Zone 1 in the house etc.
My PC is named Shai'tan, and my laptop Astraea. As for why, it's because I am into fantasy.
Are you crazy, naming the Dark One like that?!
My PC is called "Powderkeg" because it keeps blowing up on me.
A five character name in the form of CVCVC that doesn't show up as a common English word. The main reason is that I want my colmena and host names to be nicely lined up, there is a lot of space in there, and it happens to be the pattern of a race of telepaths in my fantasty world where telepathy is loosely based off of IPv6 addresses and REST and remote RPC calls.
Previously, my computer names were based on Lojban gismu based on their use, so names like fraxu (forgive), briju (office), etc.
On the other hand, my dad's computer names are: bob, bob2, bob3, bob4, bob5, bob6, bob7, bob8, steve, bob9, bob10, bob11, bob12, bob13, bob14, bob15, and bob16.
My mother's company were all named off of international currencies (we were doing a stock trading project), so dollar, mark, franc, pound, euro, etc.
My other dad's computers are named after logical constructs: axiom, theory, etc. He was a scientist.
I give them all Warhammered Latin hostnames like TABULARIUM-MAGNUS.
A self built PC called "The Thing" and "The Beast", which is a raspberry pi.
I call my desktop loseldoom but my servers are fugit and opti :P
My computer names don't really have a pattern.
Desktop is Neutron, NAS hyperion, old server exscape.
Disks have names from astronomy. Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Pegasus, Orion.
I just recently named my large NAS RAIDZ2 array Laniakea.
Welcome to Cybertron:
Inferno - firewall
OmegaSupreme - hypervisor host
Cliffjumper - ssh jumpbox
Daytrader - webserver
Metroplex - Plex server
WheelJack - my PC
Not the most famous Transformers, but I try to keep the names relevant.
(There's more, but that's all I can think of off hand)
As for why, I don't know why I originally went this route. The phone is a Pixel 7, so it's name was inspired by the meme.
My servers all are named after their purpose, no theme for them lol.
My computer? Nikkis-pad, cause it always sat ontop of my big ol desk mousepad.
My phone???
Cream daddy of the abyss.
No I will not tell you why
Nothing original;
lappy386 - my laptop
desktop (very original)
mainframe - NAS/nextcloud/email
orac - multimedia/jellyfin/photoprism/owntone
bemo (I know, I cant spell) - pihole/unbound/homeassistant/wireguard
Future servers will be named after any TV scifi tech that takes my fancy. (twiki, zen (or was it xen?), data, k-9, ada, marvin, romi, holly, bender, dolores). Any suggestions?
My systems have names of Jupiter's moons. The main devices are named like the four Galilean moons.
Dune references. Caladan, Duncan, Arrakis.
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