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Switching is decisively a pain. But apparently this episode was what I needed to start looking seriously into VaultWarden.

by sirdvd 2y ago

horsawlarway 2y ago
Huge VaultWarden fan here. It's been running absolutely unattended for about 3 years from a machine in my basement now, and it's great. I back things up fairly often, but otherwise I would have no idea I'm not just using the enterprise grade Bitwarden license. Things just work, features are there. Side-note - VaultWarden is incredibly reliable for a self-hosted free solution (I have 1 pod restart 27 days ago due to a power outage, but otherwise it basically does not fall over. No memory leaks, no high cpu consumption, no reliability problems)
- idonttalkenough 2y ago
  Tacking onto this comment as another thumbs up for vaultwarden. "incredibly reliable" is exactly the way to describe it, in the world of tech headaches the password manager is the last thing you want to be worrying about and I can say with confidence that vaultwarden is a reliable well-oiled machine. Backups are also fairly easy so if need be a DR can be done (and automated) with very little hassle. The vaultwarden backend does depend upon the bitwarden apps for client devices but also features it's own web UI.
  - cmeacham98 2y ago
    Your comment was marked dead FYI, I vouched for it. Normally this would mean you are shadow banned, but I don't see any other comments in your history getting this treatment - perhaps this comment caught the ire of some anti-spam algorithm.
    - xelamonster 2y ago
      I mean it reads like ad copy, and the entire first paragraph takes so many words to say nothing more than "I agree." As comments go, I have to say I've seen better.
      - Brian_K_White 2y ago
        I got more out of it than this one.
  - hedora 2y ago
    Old versions of vaultwarden broke recently (for just about everyone?) due to incompatible changes on the iOS client. Breakage is not ideal, but here's how they handled the second, more subtle compatibility break: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/issues/5069 https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/issues/5069 I haven't worked up the courage / time to back up my database and upgrade the docker container; will probably get to it this weekend. However, I can't imagine using bitwarden with the official server (too bloated to be trustworthy), or with their cloud thing. I got burnt by lastpass. I'm not putting my passwords in a giant high-value target again.
- BrandoElFollito 2y ago
  Same here - I just see that versions change from time to time (yeah I know I should do that manually but there we are). One thing I do not like (or, say, "miss") in Bitwarden/Vautwarden is the ability to make decrypted backups. I run the service for my immediate family and would like to have access to some people's passwords (of course with their agreement) to make sure they are fine. A solution is to use Organizations but you cannot have a "organization-only account" - an account that would exclusively save to an organization without a private vault. The "solution" is to tell people to move what they save to such and such Org but this works fine with me, recently with my wife but somehow my father does not do it and we sometimes end up with tense moments when it is time to get to some accounts :)
- apitman 2y ago
  Vaultwarden is great, but it's only half the equation. If bitwarden does go user-hostile eventually, who's going to fork all the client apps and extensions?
AzzyHN 2y ago
VaultWarden is great. But I don't use it, because I trust Bitwarden's infrastructure more than my own, for now at least.

Switching is decisively a pain. But apparently this episode was what I needed to start looking seriously into VaultWarden.

by sirdvd 2y ago

Switching is decisively a pain. But apparently this episode was what I needed to start looking seriously into VaultWarden.

horsawlarway 2y ago

Huge VaultWarden fan here. It's been running absolutely unattended for about 3 years from a machine in my basement now, and it's great. I back things up fairly often, but otherwise I would have no idea I'm not just using the enterprise grade Bitwarden license. Things just work, features are there. Side-note - VaultWarden is incredibly reliable for a self-hosted free solution (I have 1 pod restart 27 days ago due to a power outage, but otherwise it basically does not fall over. No memory leaks, no high cpu consumption, no reliability problems)

idonttalkenough 2y ago
Tacking onto this comment as another thumbs up for vaultwarden. "incredibly reliable" is exactly the way to describe it, in the world of tech headaches the password manager is the last thing you want to be worrying about and I can say with confidence that vaultwarden is a reliable well-oiled machine. Backups are also fairly easy so if need be a DR can be done (and automated) with very little hassle. The vaultwarden backend does depend upon the bitwarden apps for client devices but also features it's own web UI.
- cmeacham98 2y ago
  Your comment was marked dead FYI, I vouched for it. Normally this would mean you are shadow banned, but I don't see any other comments in your history getting this treatment - perhaps this comment caught the ire of some anti-spam algorithm.
  - xelamonster 2y ago
    I mean it reads like ad copy, and the entire first paragraph takes so many words to say nothing more than "I agree." As comments go, I have to say I've seen better.
    - Brian_K_White 2y ago
      I got more out of it than this one.
- hedora 2y ago
  Old versions of vaultwarden broke recently (for just about everyone?) due to incompatible changes on the iOS client. Breakage is not ideal, but here's how they handled the second, more subtle compatibility break: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/issues/5069 https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/issues/5069 I haven't worked up the courage / time to back up my database and upgrade the docker container; will probably get to it this weekend. However, I can't imagine using bitwarden with the official server (too bloated to be trustworthy), or with their cloud thing. I got burnt by lastpass. I'm not putting my passwords in a giant high-value target again.
BrandoElFollito 2y ago
Same here - I just see that versions change from time to time (yeah I know I should do that manually but there we are). One thing I do not like (or, say, "miss") in Bitwarden/Vautwarden is the ability to make decrypted backups. I run the service for my immediate family and would like to have access to some people's passwords (of course with their agreement) to make sure they are fine. A solution is to use Organizations but you cannot have a "organization-only account" - an account that would exclusively save to an organization without a private vault. The "solution" is to tell people to move what they save to such and such Org but this works fine with me, recently with my wife but somehow my father does not do it and we sometimes end up with tense moments when it is time to get to some accounts :)
apitman 2y ago
Vaultwarden is great, but it's only half the equation. If bitwarden does go user-hostile eventually, who's going to fork all the client apps and extensions?

AzzyHN 2y ago

VaultWarden is great. But I don't use it, because I trust Bitwarden's infrastructure more than my own, for now at least.