All my homelab stuff is boring. Host machine names are just 'model ’ + ‘-’ + ‘increment’. VMs and containers are either service or service + increment.

Whimsical names and themes are fun, but don’t scale and I need the mental bandwidth for other things than mapping service to machine etc.

You could also get a set of rails from navepoint and custom build for a bit cheaper. Or IKEA lack rack diy.

But I agree, all this stuff is too large for my taste and current gear too. I’m eyeing 10in 9U for my minilab, which is now comfortably tucked away hiding in some furniture in my living room.