What’s everyone’s server naming scheme?
I name everything after celestial objects. Stars, galaxies, constellations, and nebula are all good sources of names. Not the ones with the random number names, stuff like Andromeda and Sirius
Culture ships.
Limiting Factor and Cargo Cult are desktops.
Empiricist and Sense amid Madness, Wit Amdist Folly are a NAS and NUC that runs everything I need
Its a great variety of memorable names.
(And even though Elon keeps naming things after them, he hasn’t fucking read the books.)
I do famous libraries with interesting names. My first was Roi, after the fictional library designed by a guy named Boullee. My next was Ashur, a shortening of an ancient Assyrian library. Recently got a VPS but haven’t settled on a name for that one, just been calling it by its model. CX43 - call it Codex, perhaps?
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters LXC Linux Containers NAS Network-Attached Storage NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers Plex Brand of media server package VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
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I don’t have enough machines to have a scheme lol
- My gaming PC/game streaming server is “Orthanc” cause well… It’s a computer tower.
- My NAS/Plex/*arr server is “lil-nas-x”, cause it’s built out of a small form factor NAS
- My personal devices are boringly named “ModelName-ABC”, ABC replaced with my actual initials. Same for my wife’s and kids’ devices.
My name scheme is song names. I listen to allot of folk rock, so some names are hollowmoon or foxlore.
Its a little spicier than anas or pnas
I’ve settled on this idea as a Python developer. I don’t care if I have long names. I care about:
- understanding what it is merely by reading its name
- ability to sort lexically and items be returned in a manner I find satisfying
- uniform string structure, typically delimited by hyphen or underscore (I don’t care which, most of the time)
Names can be long. spark_write_operation_status_failfast is leagues better than some like write_op_stat
Man I wish I spent time actually learning Proxmox, instead dumped everything into a headless Debian VM and called it a day.
I name mine after greek and roman gods.
My NAS is bamed Hestia, the goddess of the bearth and home.
My docker server is called Poseidon due to the sea iconography of docker. My second iteration of my docker server where I tried playing around with podman I called Neptune.
I briefly had a Raspberry Pi for experimenting with some stuff which was called Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth.
My Proxmox machine on which pretty much all ky other servers are run as VMs is called Atlas, as the Titan holding up my personal network.
I also have a truenas VM which I boringly called truenas…
I named a lot of my machines hackbox…
I personally name my servers after Rain World iterators and creatures. I fear the day when I run out of names.
I went with a SciFi ship theme, my main server is VMS-HORIZON (Virtual Machine Ship). The VMs have ship component names like AUDIO-CORE (navidrome) and VISUAL-CORE (Immich).
My Raspberry Pi is named ORBITER, like a orbiting shuttle/satellite, and the VM it has is called BEACON (for Gotify)
Nice.
🤣 do you switch to elf names after the first 12?
You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen. Comet, and Cupid, and Donner, and Blitzen…
Close, LCC. I do have a portrainer instance for docker images, but I like the extra control that San lxc gives you
