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?
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Usually just names/lyrics of my favorite songs
iPhone:ByeByeBaby
AirPods:You're on your own, kid
Laptop:InnerMonologue
Except just for fun, I named my HomePodCortanaI name them based on what they do. Makes it easy for me to guess the name of a server if I don’t have it memorized.
I don’t remember where I started, but for a long time it was Firefly characters. I had to dig deep enough to name a system YoSaffBridge.
Then I switched to gemstones from Steven Universe. Which I still use for mostly for “end user devices”, i.e. desktops, mobile, cars (mine is peridot).
The functional stuff and the VMs I name by function. Router is router, switches are sw-0#, pihole-0#, minecraft, plex, ipam (yes I have an ipam for my network), etc…
It’s simpler and I like to be able just ssh/browse to “function” than trying to remember that ipam is on bismuth.
Years of working for a company that did lots of acquisitions, where I had to deal with integrating whimsically named infrastructure, gave me a strong appreciation for a functional and consistent naming scheme.
The names of people I know, but changed a bit to sound more cartoonish.
Hell-related, mixed from Greek mythology and Christian mythology.
- Hades: THE main server. I mean it knows and controls everything
- Charon: the router. Self-explanatory
- Hell: my laptop. Its brand is Dell. It’s where all this started.
- Limbo: my other laptop
“Hey, how do I get to the Plex server?”
“Open your browser and go to Hell”
“…”
I name mine after different places or ships from anime shows I watch. My laptop is Bebop from Cowboy Bebop, my desktop is goingmerry from One Piece, my Kali VM is senku1 from Dr. Stone, and my NAS server is amaterasu from Fire Force.
Star types, stellar objects, planet names, etc…
Anime girls. I want to change but I’m too far gone to have a random name
Rei - main pc
Asuna - main server
Milim - plex
Aqua - laptop
Darkness - first plex (the drives failed and lost everything rip)
Rem - raspi (pihole)
Ram - second raspi (home assistant)
I kept the naming scheme I used when I was doing independent tech support: snack bars. People got a chuckle when they heard “Kit Kat was misbehaving”. So I kept it for my servers, Kit Kat, Toaster & Strudel, and Snickers
All of my machine names are related to Elvis Presley. Elvis has been my desktop PC for years, and I have or have had Priscilla, Lisa-Marie, ColonelParker, Blue-Hawaii, Hound Dog, Memphis, Tupelo, and Graceland. I want to rethink this a bit to have to flow better, maybe have Graceland as my network name, or maybe the router. Also thinking about changing to something space-related or Norse Mythology as the theme.
Domestic no Kanojo is an anime that people describe as rubbish. Maybe it is, depending on where you’re coming from, but I was invested in it, and so decided to honour the anime/manga by naming my servers “Hina Tachibana”, “Natsuo Fujii”, “Rui Tachibana” and “Miu Ashihara”.
My brother and I started off a tradition when we named our first family desktop computer ‘Kraid’ from Super Metroid. Since then every device has been named after an equivalent mob. My personal gaming computer was named ‘Phantoon’, our 3 phones were named ‘Eticoon 1/2/3’, our first tablet was Tatori, etc.
Was fun and our dad got behind it very quick as a Super Metroid fan himself.
Recently, I just use whatever comes first to my mind. The last few machines have been egg-related.
At some previous employers, we used fish and salmon (king, sockeye, coho, etc).
