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What is your machine naming scheme? (startrek.website)

submitted 2 years ago by aquova@startrek.website to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
IoT	Internet of Things for device controllers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
Plex	Brand of media server package
SAN	Storage Area Network
SBC	Single-Board Computer
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

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[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

*bble. Rabble Ribble Pebble Pibble Tribble Rebble Jibble Jabble Etc...

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

We did reindeer; Dasher, Dancer, Vixen, etc.

[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

i use all the naming schemes. douglas adams, astronomy, greek letters, star trek ...

have to come up with a new concept every other machine.

[–] T_K@partizle.com 0 points 2 years ago

Various computers/robots from media.

My desktop is Eddie (The name of the shop's computer from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and my home server is HEX (the weird magic computer in the High Energy Magic building at Unseen University in the Discworld novels)

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