owenfromcanada@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Name my homelab! What should my hostnames be?English
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23 hours agoJust give them ordinary names. Then when someone hears you say something like, “I think Greg is due for a reboot” you’ll make their day that much weirder.
I’ll sometimes pick ordinary names that are loosely related to the function for memory purposes. ingress01
becomes Ingred
, cluster01
becomes Gus
(i.e., Gus the Cluster), etc.
And of course, if there’s a machine that you expect will give you trouble, you name it Richard
.
Okay, more suggestions: