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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/mocklogic on 2024-09-19 23:32:26+00:00.

I enjoy naming my servers after mythological/historical/fictional entities associated with their purpose. I require they be short and easy to spell, for me as a native English speaker anyway, AND if the server runs headless, I insist the mythological character either be headless, get beheaded, or be a severed head.

My NAS is Mimir after the Norse giant associated with a well of knowledge.

My Docker box is Hydra after the beast that spawns more heads. Good name for a Hypervisor machine really.

My backup DNS pi3 was Bran, although I may be repurposing it to power a screen too so it will need a new name. Bran in this case is a Celtic hero who was beheaded and whose head is involved in a prophesy about safety of the realm.

I also have a list of other names ready to go I can share:

Osiris - Egyptian god of the afterlife. Dismembered technically, but that must have included the head. Probably a good fit for a backup devices.

Orpheus - Greek hero associated with the arts and going to hell. A good candidate for a media services related device.

Medusa - Monster with petrifying gaze whose severed head was used to kill worse monsters. A good candidate for a security related device.

Blemmy - The singular of Blemmyes, these odd headless people with faces in their chests were sort of used when describing ancient distant places.

Calabash - An important tree in the Mayan underworld where the heads of One Hunahpu and Seven Hunahpu are places. The fruit of the tree looks like skulls so they blend in and later talk and help others avoid their fate. The story also involves a lethal ball game.

Hess - Short for Hessian, this is one of several headless ghosts / rider fables. This one Ichabod Crane’s rider.

Gan - An abbreviated form of the Irish name for The Dullahan, a famous headless rider.

Ewen - Another headless rider.

Ymir - Norse giant whose body was carved up to make the world. Dismembered, which I figure includes the head.

EDIT: It’s become clear to me based on responses that referential “fun” names like this seems to be a result of having a few but not too many devices. People with a lot of gear tend to use very descriptive names, although I’m seeing a plenty of variation on how to do that, and at the opposite extreme there’s the one redditor with one server named Server.