Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
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DNS
Domain Name Service/System
Git
Popular version control system, primarily for code
ISP
Internet Service Provider
LVM
(Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping
NAS
Network-Attached Storage
NFS
Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
Plex
Brand of media server package
RAID
Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SFTP
Secure File Transfer Protocol for encrypted file transfer, over SSH
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SSH
Secure Shell for remote terminal access
VPS
Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
ZFS
Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
k8s
Kubernetes container management package
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