Self-Hosting Vaultwarden: Setup, Hardening, and Backup for Your Password Vault
A password manager is the one self-hosted app where “good enough” isn’t good enough. Every other app on your stack going down for a night is an inconvenience. Your vault going down, or worse, becoming unrecoverable, is every credential you have locked behind a box you can no longer reach. That raises the bar for how carefully you set this one up compared to, say, a media server or a dashboard. Vaultwarden makes the bar easy to clear, it’s a small, mature, low-resource app, but only if you actually do the hardening and backup steps instead of just running the container and calling it done. ...