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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread: Fewer Letters | More Letters ---|--- DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network DNS | Domain Name Service/System IP | Internet Protocol PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption TCP | Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) ---------------- 7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms. [Thread #274 for this comm, first seen 6th May 2026, 01:40] [[FAQ](http://decronym.xyz/)] [[Full list](http://decronym.xyz/acronyms/selfhosted@lemmy_world)] [[Contact](https://hachyderm.io/@Two9A)] [[Source code](https://gist.github.com/Two9A/1d976f9b7441694162c8)]