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)
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Mine are all anime characters. Currently I have:
ever since i first fell in love with warcraft, it's always been kalimdor people, points, and places
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
All my machines are named on some variation of David Bowie albums. Outside - my laptop, Blackstar - server 1, Stardust - server 2, etc.
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.
i like fruit, so I have kiwi, mango, ...
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
I lol'd at Evergreen. Excellent choice.
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.
hugin, munin (ML compute, storage) NAS-T sidebox-1 to 4
yep wild mix
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.
My first server was a used Dell r420, so I named it Pyrocumulus, after clouds that form over fires or volcanoes
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.
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
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.).
Swedish city names, but only the ones with pure english characters to avoid hassel 😅
Kiruna
Halmstad
Lund
Etc...
DataOfDoom
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...)
Anonymous-Proxy
Hydra
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.
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.
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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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.
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.