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Any non-tech-background self-hosters? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by explorer5A@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I assume most users here have some sort of tech/IT/software background. However, I've seen some comments of people who might not have that background (no problem with that) and I wonder if you are self-hosting anything, how did you decide that you would like to self-host?

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 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
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
Plex	Brand of media server package
RPi	Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SBC	Single-Board Computer
VPN	Virtual Private Network

7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.

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