Post your Servernames!
Post your Servernames!
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 first networked computer, on an AppleTalk network was called "()/)/)()"
It was an Apple Macintosh IIci.
It had that name for less than five minutes. That's how long it took the network manager to find me and demand that I rename it to something that didn't appear at the top of the Chooser, since that's where the ADMIN NetWare server should be.
He suggested "ob1", and that's what it has been and continues to be for the past 32 years. My laptop became ob2.
Servers under my custody are called short words, generally four characters or less unless they're disposable and they don't get a name beyond what the installation process creates.
Edit: Oops, one too many slashes. Fixed.
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.
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)
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.
I use names of known computers or androids in fiction. My main computer is always Ralf (the computer built by Richie Adler in Whiz Kids), and my main phone is Lal (Data's daughter). My girlfriend uses other franchises (GLaDOS, Wheatley, Marvin).
- My self-hosted docker server is called Ark.
- My NAS is called NAS.
- The two remote servers are simply called the name of the country they reside in.
- The OPNsense router is called, wait for it, Router.
- The TV client is called TV.
It’s not very colourful :)
web01, web02, ... db01, db02, ... api01, api02, ...
You get the idea.
My first server was called xenon because I misread Xeon for Xenon but I decided to stick with it. My new server is called argon. For beefy servers I will now go with noble gases. Now that I think about it maybe I will use other elements in the future. Bismut sounds cool.
I have only one cloud VM and called it firstborn. 🤷
All my PCs get names I like Aveline, Elisabeth, Amanda, Eve...
I have yet to decide on a naming scheme for mobile phones.
Networking hardware gets descriptive names for their location and purpose.
vault101 was retired a few years ago and migrated to vault111
fedora@server
Proxmox Machine: Vimes
LinuxVM (Web and Appserver): Carrot
WinServer: Angua
NAS: Colon
OPNSense Router: PessimalMy only server is named domino server because just a small change and everything on it will break. Yes, it is that unstable.
I used to have an old laptop stuck in a corner just running Transmission. I called that
Seedbecause that was its sole purpose. Its replacement is fully automated *arr and media server, making it both seed and vault, so I had to call itSpitsbergen(reference)I had them once named after things ( mostly Ships) from Jules Verne Books: Nautilus, Albatross, Formentera, Duncan, Dobryna, Hansa.
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)
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
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.
Currently
s1andt6. I'm not a fun person."rocinante" for my proxmox host.
"awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities." From don Quixote's wiki page.
It seemed fitting considering it is a server built from old PC parts..engaged in tasks beyond its abilities.
The rest of my servers (VMs moslty) are named for what they actually do/which vlan they are on (eg vm15) and aren't fun or excitin names. But at least I know if I am on that VM it has access to that vlan(or that it's segregated from my other networks).
I got with Ancient Egyptian Deities for everything. (See: my username).
I don't name my machines anything special, but I've started naming my internal hard drives/samba shares after planets, and external drives after moons.
DomainCode-SiteCode-Function##
ACME-USCA-WEB01 ACME-GERM-DC02
I worked for a company where the previous IT dorks named the servers after startrek ships. It's cute at home. Had to rename everything and readdress the whole organization.
When I was growing up, my dad had some sort of email server or ftp server or something for the university he taught at. I have childhood memories of trying in odin@[university].edu. My first fileserver at home was just called The Vault, but when I put together a dedicated VM server, it became Odin. The long term VMs that I host on there are named after some of the lesser Nordic gods. I also have a Pi running NginX for reverse proxy passing, so after the latest season finale of Loki, that seemed like an appropriate name for that device.
Years ago, I was in a University library and they had named all the printers after characters from the first three Star Wars movies.
I liked the idea of having a theme, so I use shark names. White, Blacktip, Mako, Hammerhead, etc etc.
Mine are named after fictional robots, computer programs, or AI. It started with my wifi being GLaDOS for 5 GHz and Wheatley for 2.4 GHz. I thought it was funny that everyone could immediately tell that Wheatley was the slower one. Over time, I continued the trend. My gaming PCs are named after characters from the Mega Man X series (desktop is Zero, laptop is X, steam deck is Sigma). My macs are named EVE and WALL-E. My server is named Sibyl System (from Psycho Pass).
Chevy - Main server, rarely goes down unless I missed something on Ford
Ford - Test bed for Chevy. Questionable shit happens here.
UFO - primary desktop, most of the stuff happens here. Old Alienware case with new insides.
Sat - dreaming laptop, used for streaming from UFO.
Tron - VPN
Edit: Forgot my Wi-Fi router Colson, it dies often due to aging hardware.
Mine are all anime characters. Currently I have:
- Mizuho (Onegai Teacher)
- Misaki (To Aru Kagaku no Railgun)
- Washu (Tenchi Muyo)
- Siesta (Zero no Tsukaima)
- Derfflinger (Zero no Tsukaima)
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)
The devices usually get some descriptor of what they look like...
For example I have:
- Flatboard - an old core2duo era Xeon bare tower server board I got on Craigslist for $20 that lives on a custom backplate and no case (thus, is flat)
- OrangeBox - an Orange Pi 5 in a aptly-colored orange case I custom modeled and 3d printed for it
- DumbBrick - my retired gaming PC built from a t30 dell tower server that is basically a nondescript black brick
remnant, partially because it's a frankestein of second hand from wallapop and dusted pieces from my old computers, partially as a weeb reference to the world of RWBY lol
Ant, Beetle, Caterpillar, Dragonfly
Mine are all named after dairy products.
I have whey as the main docker host and first mon, milk as my main x86 osd, leben-{1,2} as more (arm64) osds, kumis-{1,2,3} as more (arm64) mons, kefir and ghee are old x86 mons (maybe Ill repurpose them as docker hosts someday. I have lassi-{1,2} as rpi 3b+ but they arent in use at the moment because I dont need them yet. Ive got pytia as my spine, and yoghurt as my edge, leaf is l2 so no hostname.
My main windows gaming pc is butter, the wifes pc is something similar but its not turned on and I cbf checking router logs.
monokuma - my PC
monomi - my Android phone
monokid - my laptop
monosuke - my PostmarketOS phone
junko - main VPS
mukuro - main local server
hifumi - Jellyfin/*arr serveretc.
Devices at home are named after Autobots and remote devices are named after Deceptions.
I use Futurama-based names. It started with my wifi network, which I named Zoidberg, because why not. The NAS is Infosphere, the media server is Hypnotoad, etc.
Pipi caca
nuc because it is a nuc and vps because it is a vps.
I'm a BJCP certified beer judge, so I am using beer styles for my server names. Pilsner is my main server, my gaming rig is Stout, the Digital Ocean droplet is Marzen, and the kids' computer was Rootbeer.
My SYNOLOGY NAS that's just shy of being used for too much stuff (96% CPU means I've got 4% left babyyyy) is, was, and will forever be: Senpai.
That way people (my wife and parents) notice it in the network list.
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 A4v2, 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.
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
DataOfDoom
hugin, munin (ML compute, storage) NAS-T sidebox-1 to 4
yep wild mix
Basically all mine are from this list (or similar) Star Wars planet list
Anonymous-Proxy
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...)
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters AP WiFi Access Point DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network DNS Domain Name Service/System IP Internet Protocol LXC Linux Containers NAS Network-Attached Storage NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV) PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC SBC Single-Board Computer VPN Virtual Private Network VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity Zigbee Wireless mesh network for low-power devices
15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.
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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.
i like fruit, so I have kiwi, mango, ...
i use...colors...
the servers in my and my friends' network are called Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Heracles, and hp_elitedesk (don't ask about those last two
I do come up with fancy names for my laptops though, usually some combination of the model of the laptop and the OS it's running. Void Linux + Thinkpad = "voidpad" was pretty straightforward, but when my next machine was an Alienware running Arch I was a bit stuck. After a bit of thought I remembered that one episode of Star Trek with the Guardian of Forever and named it "guardianoffornow"
All my machines are named on some variation of David Bowie albums. Outside - my laptop, Blackstar - server 1, Stardust - server 2, etc.
My first server was a used Dell r420, so I named it Pyrocumulus, after clouds that form over fires or volcanoes
Hydra
Bob
My main server is called Master and my server for testing is called lenno because it's an old Lenovo PC. Ich habe two zfs pools on my main server called Avalon and the newest one is called Pegasus. I named them after the two galaxies from the Star Gate TV Shows.
- Kubernetes Cluster
- pi-left
- pi-right
- pi-centre
- Other Servers
- pi-katamari (file server & database)
- pi-athens (DHCP, DNS, pi-hole)
- Alexandria (Synology)
- Desktops
- Berlin
- Laptops
- London
- Brighton
- Brussels
- Cambridge
- Toronto
- Phones
- Laconia
- Vulcan
- Bajor
- Kubernetes Cluster
- Phone: yoda
- Desktop: bb8
- Firewall: c3po
- Switch: macewindu
- NASes:
- anakin
- r2d2
- Wireless APs:
- biggs
- garven
- poe
- typho
- thane
- wedge (virtual controller)
- Proxmox nodes:
- chewy
- hansolo
- obiwan
- Raspberry PIs:
- bobafett
- lando
- jangofett
- quigon
- rey
- finn
- space
- magnet
- qdivison
- pi3
- pi3v2
From mangas of course!
- YuruYuri San☆Hai! - Proxmox host replacing old YuruYuri bare-metal RHEL server, now with 24-core Threadripper and registered ECC RAM!
- Nanamori-chu☆Goraku-bu (VM on Proxmox) - Replacement of my personal rig, has GPU passthrough
- Nanamori-chu☆Seitokai (VM on Proxmox) - Direct replacement of old YuruYuri working as my primary server
- I Think I Turned My Childhood Friend Into a Girl - Oracle Cloud VM, for high bandwidth and speed applications (e.g. mirror)
- WATATEN!: An Angel Flew Down to Me - Old personal rig (MacBook Pro 16" 2019 with Arch) which is still used for managing Proxmox
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.).
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.
I do random things like the names of vegetables or colors or car brands. But right now I am using Borg designations. Not in use, but an example would be eleven@twelve. Although not a server, I tend to add the capacity to USB drives. They are issued a number and I keep track of them. When one dies it gets deleted from the inventory list. So it would be IssueNumber-capacity 103-04G.
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.My current server is proxmox2, guess why. It runs servers HassOS, OMV and so on.... My desktop is called desktop and my laptop is called with its brand. 🤷
I use famous programmers. First Linux server was Torvalds, first mac was Woz, currently in service I have Kernighan (one of the inventors of C), KJohnson (Katherine Johnson was a programmer for NASA) and Shamir (The S in RSA).
I also use mythological names. Specially god names and mainly egyptian gods:
Anubis is my main one, 24/7 server. Ra is the one i use to experiment with and Zeus is my vps with vpn
For some very specialized cases that i used in the past for my Raspberry pi 4, i used Odin (i installed Huggin there), Tenjin (no reason at all, i just like it) and Khonshu
Workstations machines get first name type names that are inspired by the brand of the machine. This asus is named adam.
I tend to use objects in space. My media server is called phobos, and my AzuraCast server is called dorado.
They're a bit meaningless, though, so when I do my planned server upgrade this year I'm going to go with something different. My pfSense server was called sibyl, so perhaps something along those lines.
My partner and I came up with animal names for hostnames. The first server shall be 'bee'
Neptun for the Hardware running Proxmox
Docker-Server-1 and so on for the VMs
Lizard-King, Salamander-Witch, Toad-Knight, etc ...
Swedish city names, but only the ones with pure english characters to avoid hassel 😅
Kiruna
Halmstad
Lund
Etc...
Media-Svr
PiHoleSorry, I'm boring.
fedora and mariahssurface. Im boring :p
It started with fruit names
Citron, nectarine, fraisedesbois, cassis, yuzu, abricot...
Then I got tired and call them by what they are
Changedetection, torrents, pihole, reverse, arr, ntfy, homeassistant, nuclias, minecraft, portainer... 😓Sphinx
My home server is called Home Alone, my web server Carl Lewis. At work we use names of robots or computers from movies, games or comics.
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.
My Docker machine - JPL
My NAS - Houston
My Laptop - Artemis
I like NASA.
My first VPS was for a Minecraft server so I named it cobblestone. I've kept using Minecraft related names for all my machines since then, and I try to pick ones that are at least vaguely related to the function or appearance of the machine. For example my cluster has brute for the master and piglin01-piglin04 for the workers, but those are the only ones I've numbered.
The exception is my two Klipper RPi's, one is octopi since that's what it originally ran, and the other is named after the model of the printer. For some reason I never named my printers.
I probably wouldn't use a naming scheme like this for production servers though - I'd either go with functional hostnames or something like the periodic table which you can pick from arbitrarily. My home servers and clients aren't cattle though, so I like having a little personality to the names there.
Everything has some sort of top:
Slacktop, craptop, proxtop, oldtop, wifetop, and batocera (because I keep forgetting to ssh in and change it).
short nicknameserv 2 (accidentally screwed up 1.0’s OS and all of my Apple devices are similar format but phone, pad, etc) for my opencore-updated macOS server.
Lnxserv for my Debian server (boring but followed the naming scheme).
I used to have cool mythological names and the like but anymore I want simplicity and it to be more personal than some deity.
I don’t really name my servers anything special (just hperrin-server, smtp1, smtp2, etc), but I like to name my projects after figures in Greek mythology.
tools for my docker host with most services running on it truenas for my truenas host p01-p03 for my VPSs gpu-linux for my AI art and LLM machine
desktops and laptops are all misc strings that windows or Linux comes up with at install time
Only two I've thought through naming are
Roshar - Unraid server where 90% of apps/services live.
Cobalt Guard - Ubiquiti UDMPro
Maybe Knight Radiant or a character who is one, or even one of the orders would have fit better for protecting roshar but I like how cobalt guard sounds for a FW
I use Harry potter characters mostly for wife approval points.
Pi based one was called Dobby runs home assistant and is small
First one was called Fawkes because it was a reused laptop and was hot
Current one is buckbeak because it's fast and like Fawkes came back from dead systems
I have a threadripper at work to come so I'll have to think of what that one will be.
ever since i first fell in love with warcraft, it's always been kalimdor people, points, and places
Rabble. It's themed with my other devices, Pibble, Pabble, and Ribble.
I use Roman deities. My recent Beelink purchase received the name Mellona. I thought it was fitting. Others have no relevance, just random, like Pluto, Juno, Jupiter, Neptune... double fun for them being space objects as well.
Fuck off EU governments!
Travolta, Stallone, Dr.Jacoby, BlackMamba
Delta, Epsilon, Beta, rpi01, rpi02...
I don't name my servers anything special, but I do name my various Zigbee sensors in Home Assistant after Egyptian gods. Atum-Ra, Tefnut, Shu, etc. I've avoided the ones that also coincide with Stargate gods, as I thought that would be too exciting for me.