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 first server was a used Dell r420, so I named it Pyrocumulus, after clouds that form over fires or volcanoes
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 like fruit, so I have kiwi, mango, ...
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.
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.).
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.
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...)
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
hugin, munin (ML compute, storage) NAS-T sidebox-1 to 4
yep wild mix
Anonymous-Proxy
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.
All my machines are named after Autobots.
All my machines are named on some variation of David Bowie albums. Outside - my laptop, Blackstar - server 1, Stardust - server 2, etc.
Hydra
Mine are all anime characters. Currently I have:
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
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
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.
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.
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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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.
From mangas of course!
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