Selfhosted

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.

Everything has some sort of top:

Slacktop, craptop, proxtop, oldtop, wifetop, and batocera (because I keep forgetting to ssh in and change it).

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 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.

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.

• Nymph, my ORM
• Nephele, my WebDAV server
• Soteria, my security camera system

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.

Neptun for the Hardware running Proxmox

Docker-Server-1 and so on for the VMs

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

Cuan (shelter / harbour) Gael Éir

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.

My Docker machine - JPL

My NAS - Houston

My Laptop - Artemis

I like NASA.

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 always name my PCs with characters from the book I'm currently reading. Here are a few: Teatime, Cthulhu, Dirk, Horus, Binky, Pteppic

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

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.

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... 😓

Bob

My partner and I came up with animal names for hostnames. The first server shall be 'bee'

Workstations machines get first name type names that are inspired by the brand of the machine. This asus is named adam.

Sphinx

Lizard-King, Salamander-Witch, Toad-Knight, etc ...

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.

Fuck off EU governments!