Why You Should Self-Host Everything - eviltoast
  • frezik@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    I agree, and I think there’s some reliability arguments for certain services, too.

    I’ve been using self-hosted Bitwarden. That’s something I really want to be reliable anywhere I happen to be. I don’t want to rely on my home Internet connection always being up and dyn DNS always matching. An AWS instance or something like that which can handle Bitwarden would be around $20/month (it’s kinda heavy on RAM). Bitwarden’s own hosting is only $3.33/month for a family plan.

    Yes, Bitwarden can work with its local cache only, but I don’t like not being able to sync everything. It’s potentially too important to leave to a residential-level Internet connection.

    • turmacar@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Is your home connection down that much? I’d think that even syncing once every day or so would populate everything fine, and if you’re at home it should update over wifi.

      I might just be spoiled because I’m the only one using mine and only for a handful of devices.

      • frezik@midwest.social
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        7 months ago

        Not really, I just have trust issues with my ISP, and I’m willing to spend three bucks a month to work around them.