Decronym Bot , 6 hours ago (edited 1 hour ago)

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

Fewer Letters	More Letters
ESXi	VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IoT	Internet of Things for device controllers
LTS	Long Term Support software version
LXC	Linux Containers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NFS	Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
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
SMB	Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native
VPN	Virtual Private Network
ZFS	Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
nginx	Popular HTTP server

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