Currently I manage my passwords in an archaic but secure way, which is simply to synchronize a directory where I have my Keepass database between my devices, and I say archaic but secure because even if my Nextcloud server hosted on a VPS explode (where I have the database stored) I still have the databases stored locally, so I don’t lose anything.

I am currently interested in self hosting Vaultwarden although my biggest drawback is the fact that if my VPS were to fail for example I would not be able to access my database and if I lose access to the database I lose access to all my passwords. a pretty bad scenario.

So I have a question, what can I do to prevent that from happening? Apart from hosting everything on my own hardware of course, for now I prefer to use VPS for different reasons.

  • Norah - She/They
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    1 year ago

    AFAIK you can still make edits to the local cache when the server is offline. They just won’t sync until it regains connection.

    Edit: Just tested with my phone on airplane mode and can confirm this.

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      1 year ago

      Ah gotcha, most of my changes for Bitwarden occur through the browser extension, and the last time I tried to edit it while my server was offline, it would not allow me to save changes - however perhaps that was either a bug, behavior that has since changed in between then and now, or just a limitation that the browser extension(s) have that the actual apps don’t.