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Is the data super important to you?
Let someone else host it.
~~Bitwarden in the cloud.~~
Edit: Bitwarden paying the monthly/yearly fee to BW. I wasn’t implying trying to host it yourself in the cloud.
Agreed. Unless your setup and security practices is flawless, I think passwords are better managed by specialists paid for it.
Your security will never be flawless. Human nature is to slip up every once and a while, and security is an ever evolving game of cat and mouse and even the professionals who spend their entire careers defending infrastructure are constantly playing catch-up.
I would never host my passwords locally because I know my security at home is nowhere near the security of a professional platform, especially one as trusted as Bitwarden. My dumb family photos and personal git repo? Sure. But Bitwarden holds passwords to my bank, government websites, work stuff, my credit cards, etc.
Waaay too much risk for me, and if anyone is looking at this i would recommend that you seriously consider what kind of liability you are really bringing on.
Passwords are one I happily pay for someone else to worry about
That’s about my most valuable digital data
This. And to add to what other commenters have said, by using Bitwarden and paying for their Premium plan (very cheap, just $10/year), even if you don't use all their features, you're supporting a good project. It's critical infrastructure, I think the price is more than fair.
Either way, you should always make periodic backups from any cloud service you use, encrypted of course.
Yes! Oh my, I'm silly; that was precisely my point and I managed to mess it up 🙃
Thank you for the correction!
This is how I view password managers too, even though I have my home server backing up