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
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol for email
ISP	Internet Service Provider
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
TLS	Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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