• pixxelkick@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The value in self hosting is your passwords aren’t exposed to the internet at all, and can only be accessed over VPN from outside the house.

    If you care about security and you know how to run a network properly, then it’s definitely worth doing.

    In terms of things that can “go wrong”, the first rule of homelab is “Back your stuff up”, and the second rule of homelab is “Back it up again”

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      1 year ago

      Seriously, when you have a single small file which is that important, it’s really not hard to make sure it’s backed up in several places.

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      1 year ago

      The issue he/she is taking about is reliability of personal infrastructure. Its never run a password manager without HA, and since I’m not going to run servers in HA, I suppose I’m sticking to pen and paper for the important ones