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I don‘t know if this is the right place to ask, but is this an OK build for a first start in selfhosting? Is there anything obvious I could improve? I‘d mainly run Nextcloud, Immich, some Docker containers and smaller web applications and cronjobs.

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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
LVM (Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
VPN Virtual Private Network
ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
nginx Popular HTTP server

11 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

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