Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters | More Letters |
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CA | (SSL) Certificate Authority |
DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
HTTPS | HTTP over SSL |
IP | Internet Protocol |
NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
NAT | Network Address Translation |
SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP |
TLS | Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL |
UDP | User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications |
VPN | Virtual Private Network |
VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
nginx | Popular HTTP server |
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