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What is the point of vaultwarden? Is it safer or less safe than using the bitwarden app/website? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Trashrascall@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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Not sure I understand why you'd want to self host a password manager. Bitwarden has never been breached AFAIK. How is it better or safer to keep if self hosted?

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[–] FunnyPocketBook@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I literally just had the exact opposite question! I've been wondering why you'd want to pay for a password manager service when you could self host it. The only reason I could think of is guaranteed high uptime, but to me (and at least in my personal use case) that seems a bit pointless, since you can have a copy of your password manager on each device, which is being synced through your server