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
ISP	Internet Service Provider
LXC	Linux Containers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
UDP	User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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