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Why self host a password manager?
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Password management is the one thing i don't plan to self-host, on the grounds of not putting all my eggs in one basket. If something goes wrong and all my shit is fried or destroyed, I don't want to also fuck around with account recovery for my entire digital existence.
Plus, if something is breached, im more likely to hear news about Bitwarden than I am about compromised server and/or client versions in a timeframe to actually be able to react to it.
That's largely why I haven't self hosted either. But problems can be mitigated:
But honestly, my main reason is that I don't trust my server to stay up 100%, but I do expect Bitwarden to. I also trust their security audits.
I'm self hosting Vaultwarden and my home server got killed by the hurricane, yet I can still access my passwords just fine on the app because it stores them locally encrypted on my phone from the last time it synced. I just can't update or change anything until I can bring everything back on.
So, host your own shit you cowards, it'll be fine.
Bitwardens local cache does not include attachments, though. If you rely on them, you have to rely on the server being available.
I just... don't see the benefit. I host videos so I can access video content even if my internet goes out, and it's a lot cheaper than paying for streaming. I host my own documents because I don't want big tech scraping all my data. I host my own budgeting software, again, because of privacy.
I could host Vaultwarden. I just don't really see the point, especially when my SO and I have a shared collection, and if that broke, my SO would totally blame me, and I don't think that's worth whatever marginal benefits there are to self-hosting.
Maybe I'll eat my words and Bitwarden will get hacked. But until then, stories like yours further confirm to me that not hosting it is better.