Not so much servers as removable media. Three letter creature names: ape, bat, cat, dog, elk, fox, gnu, hen, imp, jay, kit, lee (fish), mus, nan (from Inuit folklore), owl, pug, qua, rat, sas (from Slavic folklore) and so on (I need to find my printed list beyond here)
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T: "Tay" (a mythical creature from Scottish folklore, often described as a small, elf-like being)
U: "Ufi" (a legendary creature from Native American folklore, said to resemble a small humanoid figure)
V: "Vim" (a mythical creature from Hindu mythology, sometimes depicted as a bird-like being)
W: "Wyy" (inspired by the Wyvern, a legendary creature similar to a dragon but with only two legs)
X: "Xin" (a mythical creature from Chinese mythology, often depicted as a lion-like beast)
Y: "Yen" (a legendary creature from Vietnamese folklore, resembling a large, serpent-like creature)
Z: "Ziz" (a mythical creature from Jewish mythology, described as a giant bird)I got with Ancient Egyptian Deities for everything. (See: my username).
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.
Butts. It hosts web applications. The public ones are on the domain "InButts.LOL" where the subdomain is more or less the application name.
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RPI4
Shuttle
Transporter
Orbiter
Oh, I had one 'Shittle' or something.
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
Devices at home are named after Autobots and remote devices are named after Deceptions.
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 server
etc.
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
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.
sol
terra
mars
venus
hubble
nibiru
voyager
groundcontrol (router)
deepspacenetwork1 and 2 (wifi access points)
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nuc because it is a nuc and vps because it is a vps.
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.
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Pipi caca
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.
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.
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.
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"
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)
Since I'm kinda fan of Terry Pratchett, I naturally have HEX at home.
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Ant, Beetle, Caterpillar, Dragonfly
My server is called Mars, and the two clients I have are Phobos and Deimos (the moons of Mars). I though that's a good fit.
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).
Rabble. It's themed with my other devices, Pibble, Pabble, and Ribble.
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.
Delta, Epsilon, Beta, rpi01, rpi02...
All my machines are named after Autobots.
Same, though I've got a couple Decepticons sprinkled in. They all connect to the Allspark ssid.
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