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"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).
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.
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.
RPI4
Shuttle
Transporter
Orbiter
Oh, I had one 'Shittle' or something.
I got with Ancient Egyptian Deities for everything. (See: my username).
Since I'm kinda fan of Terry Pratchett, I naturally have HEX at home.
Pipi caca
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.
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.
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"
sol
terra
mars
venus
hubble
nibiru
voyager
groundcontrol (router)
deepspacenetwork1 and 2 (wifi access points)
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
Oh dang. How fun. I never even considered thematically making my machines! Mine are super mundane.
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:
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.
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.
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).
Ant, Beetle, Caterpillar, Dragonfly
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.
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.
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.
nuc because it is a nuc and vps because it is a vps.
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.
Rabble. It's themed with my other devices, Pibble, Pabble, and Ribble.
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.
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
Travolta, Stallone, Dr.Jacoby, BlackMamba