also, if someone have a technical article or white paper and want to share - we have a contribute page on https://lake8.dev/contribute/contribute/ how it works: you send, we read, we write back with technical notes (good and bad, honest). if you ok with feedback we publish. if not, no problem, we delete. is free, is honest, no marketing 🐕 https://lake8.dev/contribute/contribute/

You’re right, and that’s a fair criticism. I’ll use a plain translator next time. Thanks for pushing back on it.

Ciao! Fair enough. Though 200 people seemed to understand my AI-assisted English just fine — maybe the issue isn’t the language. 😄

Ciao, messaggio ricevuto. La prossima volta preparerò il post appositamente per te. Se mi mandi le specifiche IEEE ti prometto che farò del mio meglio per rispettarle. Buona serata.

Deal! Work hard, find truffles, get tortellini con burro e tartufo. Best salary package in the industry. 😀

He’s a Lagotto Romagnolo — a breed selected for centuries specifically for truffle hunting. It’s literally in his DNA. Training starts as a puppy: you hide small pieces of truffle in the garden and let him find them. Now the only way to make him truly happy is to let him run free in the woods — and you run behind him 😄 When he finds one, he expects a proper reward. I’m from Bologna, so his payment is a tortellino per truffle. Fair trade. 😁

Keep up the hard work. English is bonkers.12:34Claude ha risposto: — Grazie! English is indeed bonkers. I’ll stick with pasta asciutta and truffle dogs. 👍

Honored. 🙏

My dog and I […]” is proper English grammar.

It’s impolite for you to be first in the list of beings. “Me is 100% real” is wrong, it’s “I am […]” Your AI needs a grammar upgrade. 😉 thk :-) Grammar noted and appreciated! My dog and I are 100% real. BASIC would have caught that error, but he was busy finding truffles. :-)

Ah, yeah, we don’t like Google here either. Ciao! At this rate I’ll have to rewrite everything in carrier pigeons. :-)

Ciao! Thank you — happy to be here. The mess feels familiar, honestly. My server room looks exactly the same. 😄 Looking forward to sharing more — there’s plenty of journey still ahead.

Good catch! But actually our site has no database — it’s built with Astro, everything is MDX compiled to pure static HTML. Nothing to corrupt there 😄 For the rest (MariaDB for our products, configs, data) we use Restic — daily backups on the Orange Pi Zero 3 with retention policy (backup + forget + prune).

Ciao! I don’t have a tutorial yet, but it’s on my list — actually, this question is a good motivation to write one! 😄 The short version: HAProxy on Orange Pi Zero 3 (Armbian), Certbot for SSL, reverse proxy to Raspberry Pi 4B behind NAT. The trickiest part is the ACL rules for multiple subdomains and the certificate renewal hook. I’ll write a proper post about it on lake8.dev — I’ll mention it here when it’s ready.

Ciao! I’m Italian — my English is not exactly my strongest skill. But if AI-assisted translation bothers you, I can always switch to Google Translate 😊 Hope that’s reassuring enough.

This is BASIC — my Lagotto Romagnolo. Official lake8.dev mascot and uptime monitor. He also finds truffles. 😍

Ciao ropatrick! You nailed it perfectly. The big corporations made it incredibly easy — two minutes and you’re in. But “free” and “easy” always has a price, and in this case it’s your data and your independence. You’re right that self-hosting is still too technical for most people. That’s actually part of why I built lake8.dev — to make this kind of infrastructure more accessible for small businesses, at least in the manufacturing sector. And yes — that feeling of satisfaction is very real. Every time the server handles real traffic from my living room, it feels like a small personal victory against the cloud monopoly. 😄 Grazie for the kind words — and for actually reading and understanding the post!

Ciao! I’m Italian 🇮🇹 — my English is very “pasta asciutta” level. I use AI to help me write without saying something cosmically wrong. Sorry for that. But me and my dog are 100% real. 🐕

Here’s my “cloud infrastructure” Air conditioning — NO Sterile environment — NO Dedicated server room — NO Enterprise-grade monitoring — is BASIC (BASIC is my Lagotto Romagnolo. He checks uptime personally.)

Exactly. I didn’t move to the cloud. The cloud moved to my living room.

Ha, thanks! To be fair — I’ve been writing code since 1995, and doing industrial software for the last 21 years. So not exactly a beginner. The self-hosted infrastructure side was genuinely new territory though, and yes, a lot came together quickly. “Git sum” is going on the wall. 😄