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I'm going to move away from lastpass because the user experience is pretty fucking shit. I was going to look at 1pass as I use it a lot at work and so know it. However I have heard a lot of praise for BitWarden and VaultWarden on here and so probably going to try them out first.

My questions are to those of you who self-host, firstly: why?

And how do you mitigate the risk of your internet going down at home and blocking your access while away?

BitWarden's paid tier is only $10 a year which I'm happy to pay to support a decent service, but im curious about the benefits of the above. I already run syncthing on a pi so adding a password manager wouldn't need any additional hardware.

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[–] april@lemmy.world 123 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Because when whatever company gets a data breach I don't want my data in the list.

With bitwarden If your server goes down then all your devices still have a local copy of your database you just can't add new passwords until the server is back up.

[–] slackj_87@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pretty much this. Combined with how easy it is to install VaultWarden (docker ftw), it was a no brainer for me.

Also, my little home server is a WAY less juicy target for someone looking to steal and sell a bunch of passwords.

Been running it for probably about 2 years now. No ISP outages but a couple self-inflicted ones. Didn't even notice the outages in the BitWarden app/extension.

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