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kjfarm | 3 years ago

A good note for bitwarden is that it has a self hosting open source version, vaultwarden that is easy to switch to: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden I see this as downside protection, as I can quickly migrate if I disagree with bitwarden's direction with minimal changes to my clients.

I do worry about VC pressure on Bitwarden for hypergrowth. However in my personal opinion, the benefits outweigh the cons (for now).

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kioleanu|3 years ago

Note that Vaultwarden is the unofficial server, there is also an official one, that you can self host.

Vaultwarden is much easier to set up and manage, I use it myself, and I heard that the official build is a little bit more tedious to go with.

pavon|3 years ago

The official server is distributed as docker containers, with a shell script to manage them, and is quite simple to setup and maintain. I could see how trying to deploy it yourself outside of docker could be an undertaking though.

The MSSQL database seems a bit heavyweight (RAM wise) given the tiny amount of data it needs to host for a handful of users, and isn't acceptable to some people on principle, since it isn't open source.

Spivak|3 years ago

The official one used to only support MS SQL and other DBs are still “mileage may vary” so people were uhh pretty motivated to make something else.

cube00|3 years ago

It's easier to manage until it breaks as the recent example last month when Bitwarden updated their client and Vaultwarden had to play catch up and reverse engineer the changes.

That experience sent me back to just letting Bitwarden host for me, I know it's all free and I can't expect anything which is fine, but I can't be without my passwords either.

zbrozek|3 years ago

I personally use vaultwarden myself as well, and am also quite pleased with it.

omnicognate|3 years ago

Vaultwarden's great. I use it. I use the Bitwarden Android client, though. Not sure what there is to replace that.

princevegeta89|3 years ago

Is it not possible to point BW Android to your Vaultwarden instance?

simooooo|3 years ago

Waiting for bitwarden unified to come out of beta before I self Host

szundi|3 years ago

If dev support from the company fades, the UI will start to deteriorate - and wether you are hosting or not, that is also a thing that matters. Like mobile apps, browser plugins, form filling logics and specific site behaviours etc.