A short story on why I still go through the effort of self hosting servers and some things it taught me recently.
  • @DecronymABEnglish
    5•3 months ago

    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)

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    • Adam MonsenOPEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      I think “VPS” in Christian’s blog post does refer to shared hosting.

      • @mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.spaceEnglish
        3•4 months 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?