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 |
| 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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