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.

    • ScrubblesEnglish
      0•3 months ago

      Another great point, if I lose my Linux isos, sucks but I’ll redownload. If I lose my family videos, sucks but I’ll log into my backups and resync. If I lose my credentials I’m fucked. Plain fucked. I can’t decrypt my backups, can’t log into services, it’s done.

      • BlueKey
        1•3 months ago

        Thats why ones password DB should also be saved encrypted one one or two external drives.

        • circuscriticEnglish
          0•3 months ago

          Not everyone has a safety deposit box, or the ability to access a proper and secure off-site storage.

          And if you’re just keeping those in your house, then fire, flood, and other incidents can destroy all copies at once.