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  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread: Fewer Letters | More Letters ---|--- DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network IP | Internet Protocol NAS | Network-Attached Storage NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers PSU | Power Supply Unit Plex | Brand of media server package SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass...

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  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread: Fewer Letters | More Letters ---|--- HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web IP | Internet Protocol NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers Plex | Brand of media server package RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption UDP | User Datagram Protocol, for real-time...

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  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 ESXi | VMWare virtual machine hypervisor IP | Internet Protocol LXC | Linux Containers NAS | Network-Attached Storage NVR | Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV) PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) Plex | Brand of media server package SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage...

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  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread: Fewer Letters | More Letters ---|--- HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web LXC | Linux Containers NAS | Network-Attached Storage NFS | Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage ZFS | Solaris/Linux filesys...

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  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread: Fewer Letters | More Letters ---|--- HA | Home Assistant automation software ~ | High Availability NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers RPi | Raspberry Pi brand of SBC SBC | Single-Board Computer SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage Zigbee | Wireless mesh network for low-power devices ---------------- 5 acronyms in this thread; the mo...

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  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread: Fewer Letters | More Letters ---|--- HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web NFS | Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency SMB | Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native VPN | Virtual Private Network nginx | Popular HTTP server ---------------- 4 acronyms in this thre...

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  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread: Fewer Letters | More Letters ---|--- Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web IP | Internet Protocol VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) nginx | Popular HTTP server ---------------- 4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms. [Threa...