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A comment on Ask HN: Should you be self-hosting critical servers like Bitwarden?.

Re:Ask HN: Should you be self-hosting critical servers like ... by CallMeJim on Friday October 16, 2020 @05:47AM (#24799197)
Convenience/security tradeoff.

If you only care about convenience, you shouldn't be self-hosting - what if your server goes down? Much better to abstract this away and let someone else take care of it.

If you only care about security, you don't want anyone else's prying eyes anywhere near your recursively-encrypted secrets; self-host on a server that is airgapped from any publicly accessible networks.

Which of these do you care about more?

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Re:Ask HN: Should you be self-hosting critical servers like ... by thepiratesailor on Friday October 16, 2020 @06:07AM (#24799305)
Even if I give up convenience for security, I may not be a seasoned DevOps guy like the one who is payed good salary to do that 24x7. So it turns out that self-hosting is not for everybody. Small mistakes in configuration can lead to entire infra getting compromised.
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