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I was thinking about self hosting but I was worried it would be less secure. I don’t really know a lot about setting that kind of thing up (I do have programming experience but don’t have a lot of server hosting experience outside of doing it for games like Minecraft) and I feel like I’d mess it up and it would be a lot easier to get into than a hardened server. Especially cause the odds I get a virus or something is probably higher then the odds someone breaks into bitwarden’s server. Idk if I’m wrong about this, would love to be corrected if I am, was just my initial thoughts when I switched over from a different password manager to bitwarden.

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If you don’t trust yourself 110%, don’t host it yourself. Too risky. I self-host everything, but I leave email and passwords to someone else because it’s just too important.

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I think the bigger thing to worry about is, what would happen if your server fails or is destroyed? Would you have a backup of all your passwords? And if yes, are those backups updated regularly and stored in a safe place that also won’t get destroyed if the server gets destroyed (like, say, a house fire)?

Then, yes, you got the cybersecurity angle too

It’s a lot to think about for something as important and fundamental to everything you do on the internet as passwords (and accounts)

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backups aren’t that big of a deal with bitwarden as every client keeps a copy of the database that can be restored.

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It’s pretty easy to setup using docker, you do need to know that ofcourse and how to setup dns and stuff.

I have it firewalled so my vault is not accessible from the internet, only from home or vpn to home.

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