corsicanguppy ,

The gist of rfc1178 is

  • don't name them incomprehensible shit
  • don't name them indistinguishable shit
  • don't name them unpronounceable shit
  • don't name them after their ephemeral purpose (less an issue now since it's one service per cattle member)

I worked at a shop where it was all ussfllb02 (a Linux load balancer in San Fran) and ukloesto12 (an emc array in London) and that's how they went all over the globe for like 15 DCs.

But then it got hard to keep the numbers straight, and we'd patch boxb10 instead of 01 or something, and the very real issue where humans can't keep abstract glyphs in their head for too long became a problem.

I'll do RedTruck and GreenBoat every time.

kurotora ,

I've felt the same pain, coming from enterprise environment with strict naming convention. So, of course, at home I avoid that like eating sh*t.

At home my servers are called after my deceased pets, little tribute of their precious time on earth, based on their "capabilities".
Some raspberry pis with small services named after our squirrel and cats and the big ones named after our dogs. That way they continue somehow with us, even after leaving us for more than 15 years.

Deway ,

Jean-Luc.
My previous home server was a Cisco thin-client and my partner called it Benjamin so when I replaced it, I kept the logic.

Rentlar ,

Firebox to run my Firefox. Other servers I've dedicated to hosting that I don't interact regularly with I have been less creative with, usually my username and something to do with the server.

Randelung ,

Anonymous-Proxy

oeLLph ,

hugin, munin (ML compute, storage)
NAS-T
sidebox-1 to 4

yep wild mix

UxyIVrljPeRl ,

DataOfDoom

Scrath ,

My proxmox server is named Atlas.
It hosts a Truenas VM called truenas, a ubuntu server lts vm called Poseidon for docker container hosting a homeassistant VM called homeassistant and a second VM for docker containers called Neptune where I want to gradually move and reorganize my services as required.

I also have a raspberry pi as a general testserver called eileithya and a Synology Nas named Hestia

gballantine ,
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At home my systems use Star Wars planet names like Naboo, Coruscant, etc.

At work we use Game of Thrones characters (and we've somehow exhausted that list...)

pukeko ,

Birds. Servers are big, strong, imposing birds. Mobile devices are small and flitting birds. Things in between are birds in between. I've put some thematic value on some of the bird names (a showy bird for media, etc.).

JustEnoughDucks ,
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Swedish city names, but only the ones with pure english characters to avoid hassel 😅

Kiruna

Halmstad

Lund

Etc...

eletes ,
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Two metal gear references: Arsenal gear and Outer Heaven.

And then the container ship company that blocked the canal, Evergreen

All having references to be able to hold many containers/weapons

Rentlar ,

I lol'd at Evergreen. Excellent choice.

beeng ,
  • space
  • magnet
  • qdivison
  • pi3
  • pi3v2
gdog05 ,

My Unraid NAS and media server is called Madmartigan. The Proxmox server running Home Assistant, second Pihole instance and my bookmark manager and such is called Willow. My raspberry pi that I use for testing and such is called Brownie.

ryan_harg ,
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i like fruit, so I have kiwi, mango, ...

Badabinski ,

I just kinda vaguely name them after what they do and how big they are:

smol: my tiny little 2 bay Synology NAS that I'm no longer using
medium: my R620 with 4x 18TB drives that is my current NAS (medium, because it's larger than my previous NAS). Is also a k3s worker and provides NFS PVCs.
big: my old full-tower gaming rig that's a k3s worker and runs my Home Assistant VM
molecule: my current mini-ITX gaming rig and primary computer, also serves as the k3s master node and runs a lot of my home automation stuff. I think I picked molecule because it's REALLY tiny (it's in a Dan Cases A4v4.1, I think?) and it has a bunch of small stuff running on it (containers and pods)
monolith: my old T440p laptop. It's a large, black, featureless slab that doesn't do much
slab: my new Framework 13 laptop. I just kinda looked at it and said, "that's a nice slab of metal"

All of the above running Linux. I tinkered with Ubuntu for the NAS (because I heard Ubuntu was good at ZFS), but I still absolutely hate Ubuntu, so it's all Arch Linux.

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