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, ...

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.

• space
• magnet
• qdivison
• pi3
• pi3v2

DataOfDoom

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...

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

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...)

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.

The gist of rfc1178 is

• don't name them incomprehensible shit
• don't name them indistinguishable shit
• don't name them unpronounceable shit
• don't name them after their ephemeral purpose (less an issue now since it's one service per cattle member)

I worked at a shop where it was all ussfllb02 (a Linux load balancer in San Fran) and ukloesto12 (an emc array in London) and that's how they went all over the globe for like 15 DCs.

But then it got hard to keep the numbers straight, and we'd patch boxb10 instead of 01 or something, and the very real issue where humans can't keep abstract glyphs in their head for too long became a problem.

I'll do RedTruck and GreenBoat every time.

• Phone: yoda
• Desktop: bb8
• Firewall: c3po
• Switch: macewindu
• NASes:
  • anakin
  • r2d2
• Wireless APs:
  • biggs
  • garven
  • poe
  • typho
  • thane
  • wedge (virtual controller)
• Proxmox nodes:
  • chewy
  • hansolo
  • obiwan
• Raspberry PIs:
  • bobafett
  • lando
  • jangofett
  • quigon
  • rey
  • finn

• Kubernetes Cluster
  • pi-left
  • pi-right
  • pi-centre
• Other Servers
  • pi-katamari (file server & database)
  • pi-athens (DHCP, DNS, pi-hole)
  • Alexandria (Synology)
• Desktops
  • Berlin
• Laptops
  • London
  • Brighton
  • Brussels
  • Cambridge
  • Toronto
• Phones
  • Laconia
  • Vulcan
  • Bajor

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:

• Mizuho (Onegai Teacher)
• Misaki (To Aru Kagaku no Railgun)
• Washu (Tenchi Muyo)
• Siesta (Zero no Tsukaima)
• Derfflinger (Zero no Tsukaima)

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Travolta, Stallone, Dr.Jacoby, BlackMamba

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:

15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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fedora and mariahssurface. Im boring :p

Normally I don't change the names that the distribution gives to the hostname, but I've been thinking for a while about changing the names to mythological gods or Latin tree names only for server and SBC.

The only server for which I have changed the host name is now r5700server. r5700 for the processor (Ryzen 7 5700), and server because it's a server.

Media-Svr
PiHole

Sorry, I'm boring.