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.

  • JeenaEnglish
    40•11 hours ago

    I use KeePassXC and use syncthing to sync the database to each devise I own. This way I always have the newest version if the database everywhere and don’t need to worry about Internet access at all.

    • PikaEnglish
      2•3 hours ago

      this is what I do as well, along with file staging so if I corrupt it by accident I don’t lose the entire DB

      Currently I have it on my server as grab only, and then normal access on my clients with staging

    • @dan@upvote.auEnglish
      3•5 hours ago

      don’t need to worry about Internet access at all.

      For what it’s worth, Bitwarden caches the database for offline use, so it works fine without internet access too. When you get internet access again, it’ll sync with the server.

    • @fine_sandy_bottomEnglish
      2•6 hours ago

      This is the answer.

      I use syncthing to sync between devices.