I use Futurama-based names. It started with my wifi network, which I named Zoidberg, because why not. The NAS is Infosphere, the media server is Hypnotoad, etc.

My main server is called Master and my server for testing is called lenno because it’s an old Lenovo PC. Ich habe two zfs pools on my main server called Avalon and the newest one is called Pegasus. I named them after the two galaxies from the Star Gate TV Shows.

I had them once named after things ( mostly Ships) from Jules Verne Books: Nautilus, Albatross, Formentera, Duncan, Dobryna, Hansa.

Basically all mine are from this list (or similar) Star Wars planet list

My tangible servers and clients have people’s names

My system components VMs have mythology names.

My non prod VMs have identifiable names like routeros, debiangui etc.

Fun stuff are my smart vacuums, I give them old women names from different countries. My very first one was Consuela, thinking of Family Guy.

Lastname-Server

I know, I’m boring. But at least my laptop and desktop have cool names:

Firstname-Laptop

Firstname-Desktop

My first VPS was for a Minecraft server so I named it cobblestone. I’ve kept using Minecraft related names for all my machines since then, and I try to pick ones that are at least vaguely related to the function or appearance of the machine. For example my cluster has brute for the master and piglin01-piglin04 for the workers, but those are the only ones I’ve numbered.

The exception is my two Klipper RPi’s, one is octopi since that’s what it originally ran, and the other is named after the model of the printer. For some reason I never named my printers.

I probably wouldn’t use a naming scheme like this for production servers though - I’d either go with functional hostnames or something like the periodic table which you can pick from arbitrarily. My home servers and clients aren’t cattle though, so I like having a little personality to the names there.

Moxy does some Proxy

Cluster of the fuck

Boxxy

F8U12

I don’t really name my servers anything special (just hperrin-server, smtp1, smtp2, etc), but I like to name my projects after figures in Greek mythology.

• Nymph, my ORM
• Nephele, my WebDAV server
• Soteria, my security camera system

I tend to use objects in space. My media server is called phobos, and my AzuraCast server is called dorado.

They’re a bit meaningless, though, so when I do my planned server upgrade this year I’m going to go with something different. My pfSense server was called sibyl, so perhaps something along those lines.

DataOfDoom

My home server is called Home Alone, my web server Carl Lewis. At work we use names of robots or computers from movies, games or comics.

I use names from movies, TV-shows or games.

miyagi (pfSense, Fujitsu Futro)
kratos (Main server)
boy (lxc container on main server)
nicknack (ThinkCentre M93p tiny)
nas-t (Truenas)
cosmo (Desktop PC)
To name a few.
Easier to remember when they have silly names 🤷

Chevy - Main server, rarely goes down unless I missed something on Ford

Ford - Test bed for Chevy. Questionable shit happens here.

UFO - primary desktop, most of the stuff happens here. Old Alienware case with new insides.

Sat - dreaming laptop, used for streaming from UFO.

Tron - VPN

Edit: Forgot my Wi-Fi router Colson, it dies often due to aging hardware.

Mine are named after fictional robots, computer programs, or AI. It started with my wifi being GLaDOS for 5 GHz and Wheatley for 2.4 GHz. I thought it was funny that everyone could immediately tell that Wheatley was the slower one. Over time, I continued the trend. My gaming PCs are named after characters from the Mega Man X series (desktop is Zero, laptop is X, steam deck is Sigma). My macs are named EVE and WALL-E. My server is named Sibyl System (from Psycho Pass).