What's everyone's server naming scheme?
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I name mine after greek and roman gods.
My NAS is bamed Hestia, the goddess of the bearth and home.
My docker server is called Poseidon due to the sea iconography of docker. My second iteration of my docker server where I tried playing around with podman I called Neptune.
I briefly had a Raspberry Pi for experimenting with some stuff which was called Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth.
My Proxmox machine on which pretty much all ky other servers are run as VMs is called Atlas, as the Titan holding up my personal network.
I also have a truenas VM which I boringly called truenas...