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Hi fellow selfhosters!

What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
And maybe why if it's an interesting story.

I'll start:
Steam Deck: krax
Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
MiniPC: krux
Reserved for future use: krex & krox

Creative, I know. ๐Ÿ˜… The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That's it.

I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that. ย 
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Now let your pants down and tell me all about

your embarrassing host names!

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[โ€“] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I name my devices after greek gods based on what I'm going in life at the time or after what their purpose is.

I named my first gaming PC "Poseidon" when I was doing ship related work. Now it's my server.

My gaming PC is "Asclepius", the Greek god of healing. Built when I got into healthcare.

Hermes, god of messeges, is my lil pi that helps with routing (pihole, pivpn, nginx).

My HTPC is Dionysus, Greek god of wine and parties.

My thinkpad is Persephone cus it looks good but doesn't do much. I might rename it.

The services that I run on these are just named "device-service" e.g. hermes-nginx

[โ€“] grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

fuck, this is way better than my current naming scheme of "customer-<devicepurpose>, I'm stealing it for my next setup.

[โ€“] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I do the same but Egyptian