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What's everyone's server naming scheme?

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[โ€“] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

Fewer Letters More Letters
LXC Linux Containers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
Plex Brand of media server package
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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[โ€“] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

good bot pats head