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by yogenpro 1383 days ago
I've been using Bitwarden's clients (browser extension, mobile apps, desktop apps) with a self-hosted vaultwarden [1] server. It's marginally free if you are already self-hosting other stuff. I'm hosting it on a raspberry pi 4b at home and exposing it to public Internet through Cloudflare zero trust (also free). Had no problems so far.

[1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden, note that it's different from Bitwarden's official server (https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/), uses less CPU/memory, and enables premium features like TOTP for free.

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Vaultwarden "is the way" if you need a polished iOS client, almost too good to be true now that VC's are involved.
Added bonus - even if the client extensions/app stopped working you can still log into the vaultwarden web UI to access your secrets.
vaultwarden is awesome, just make sure you have some reliable automated backup (preferably cloud) for disaster recovery.
I have a similar setup but using a $5/month VPS that I also host a few other personal/family apps on. It works really well but I’m wondering how long the api will stay open and accessible given their recent huge VC investment.
It's not going anywhere, that's part of what the investment is to further, per their post.
Iam curious how you made the clients connect to the server behind CF zero trust. have you white-listrd a path or so for them?