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  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Remote connection over internet?English
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    10 hours ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    AP WiFi Access Point
    CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    ISP Internet Service Provider
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NAT Network Address Translation
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    VNC Virtual Network Computing for remote desktop access
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

    [Thread #129 for this comm, first seen 15th Oct 2026, 09:50] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What is your self hosted power draw?English
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    7 hours ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    AP WiFi Access Point
    ISP Internet Service Provider
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
    NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV)
    Plex Brand of media server package
    PoE Power over Ethernet
    RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
    Zigbee Wireless mesh network for low-power devices
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    [Thread #128 for this comm, first seen 13th Oct 2026, 23:00] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How do you monitor your servers?English
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    43 minutes ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    AP WiFi Access Point
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    ISP Internet Service Provider
    LXC Linux Containers
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
    RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

    10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

    [Thread #122 for this comm, first seen 9th Oct 2026, 13:00] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]