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Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned) (chollinger.com)

submitted 2 years ago by meonkeys@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NFS	Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
RPi	Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SBC	Single-Board Computer
SMB	Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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

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[–] meonkeys@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think "VPS" in Christian's blog post does refer to shared hosting.

[–] mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.space 3 points 2 years ago

I think shared hosting there is more meant to refer to the older "upload your files in webmin and we'll shove them in /cgi-bin/ with everybody else's"-style hosting where multiple users sites are running on a single instance of a webserver versus a VPS giving you a VM with SSH access?