I’ve ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi’s quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I’ve broadened it somewhat to include any Greek/Roman mythological figure, but the system is definitely not as clean as it used to be.
Do you have a coordinated naming theme for your machines?
All my devices get named after cities. I try to make it somewhat relevant to the purpose of the machine.
Usually things related to the device (e.g. network shares) gets named after neighbourhoods in the respective cities.- Main PC:
SAN-FRANCISCO
, - File server:
SARAJEVO
,- Shares:
VRATNIK
,BISTRIK
,SEDRENIK
,HRASTOVI
,
- Shares:
- Work laptop:
SEATTLE
, - Phone:
BARCELONA
, - Media box:
CANNES
.
My boyfriend names all of his devices after planetary bodies, much like OP.
Thing related to the devices are named after the moons of the respective planet.- Main PC:
SATURN
,- Drives:
ATLAS
,PROMETHEUS
,TITAN
,HYPERION
,JANUS
,
- Drives:
- File server:
JUPITER
,- Shares:
GANYMEDE
,
- Shares:
- Phone:
PLUTO
, - Laptop:
CHARON
.
(He just realised that last one is inconsistent, and is renaming it to
MERCURY
)- Main PC:
Battlestar Galactica years ago. Dradis for the domain name and ships for the computers.
Galactica.dradis Pegasus.dradis Basestar.dradis And so on. Made it fun.
I don’t have a very consistent naming theme. I’ve used various names related to music, science, and art. I have a decomissioned machine named “numbers” for example.
However, I would like to point out we have plenty more than 8 celestial bodies of interest in the solar system if you include Eris, Ceres, Pluto, Makemake, the moons of Jupiter, and more. It might not be indefinitely extendable, but may help in the short term.
I have no naming consistency, whatever I feel like that day is what it’s name ends up with.
I use names of random yokai. There are so many that I’ll never run out. I used to use names of fictional AIs that I would hand pick, but after a bunch of VMs, that became too annoying to deal with.
A friend of mine names all his hosts afer famous battleships, his dad names every host after Star Trek ships and their wireless networks are all named after LOTR locations.
As for me, each hostname consists of the device type and the location of the host, no matter if it’s local or a vps in a datacenter somewhere.
I’m incredibly boring. I name them with the company/model name. And what role they have appended.
Cute naming schemes are for people who don’t have lots of servers. At my work we have over 700 servers. We’re not naming them after something arbitrary, we’re being descriptive.
Sounds like you could start using the names of moons. But a pantheon does sound like a good system too, should also include the titans.
I name devices after Greek Gods / Goddesses. My main server is called Olympus.
Same Greek or Roman gods and mythical creatures. loki, hades, medusa, cerberus
Gravity falls characters: Mabel, Dipper, Soos, Wendy, etc…
Do you match the service with the characters personality?
That’s a TODO, atm they’re names that reflect their role. So my reverse proxy is “roundabout” because it directs traffic internally
Star Trek ships at home. And Game of Thrones characters at work.
I name all my computers after NZ Birds in our native language Māori. So far I have used, Pukeko, Takahe, Kakapo, Weka, Ruru, Piwakawaka and my latest laptop Kahu
One of my nicknames is Hugo. I have a Windows, a macOS, a Debian and a Raspbian machine.
So I call them Hugowin, Hugotosh and Hugopi. The Debian machine mostly runs Plex so it is named Plexy. And my Phone is called iBobes because someone once told me that Bobes mean ass in german and i though that is incredibly funny.
FYI: Bobes does not mean ass in german. That’s not even a german word.
Edit: Maybe they meant “Popo” which is closer to butt/behind in english
German here, yes it does and it is. It’s not a high German word, but a dialect one (but it’s present in multiple German dialects, mostly all Franconian ones, as well as Hessian and Swabian). Usually it’s written “Bobbes”, though.
Russian spacecraft and rockets.
Currently I have N1 as my home server and my desktop is Energia. I’ve previously had Proton and Soyuz etc.
Just stupid puns that come to mind when I set it up. Synology NAS is “Rainy” since the box had “be your own cloud” written on it. M1 MacBook is “Apple Pie” because being ARM it’s just a big Raspberry Pi right? Etc