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You can selfhost Bitwarden/Vaultwarden (which I recommend, since it's rewritten in Rust and you get all the premium features for free) and use Bitwarden Send. This is probably more secure than most other options.
Though for the actual password selfhosting part of it, that is too much for my blood. Much higher chance that I would seriously fuck something up and lose access to hundreds of services than the remote bitwarden server gets compromised or becomes too shitty to use.
You can continue using the cloud hosted version of Bitwarden and only use your own instance for file sharing.
Or pay the astoundingly low $10/yr for Premium and use Send on the cloud servers.
Sure, I've been a premium customer for years because I find the service very useful, but this community is all about selfhosting.
True enough, but I like to slide in an ad in for Bitwarden every once in a while. I don't think my $10 alone is going to keep them afloat :)
I'm pretty sure Bitwarden is profitable, about a year ago they even purchased another company: https://bitwarden.com/blog/bitwarden-extends-passwordless-leadership-with-acquisition/
Also, I don't think they make that much money from individuals. They focus more on businesses, because they pay more and these customers stay around for a long time, they can't easily switch to a different solution.
I pay my $10 license and a personal organisation license for bitwarden because I like their platform but after yet another irrecoverable loss of data (partly my fault for not sufficiently backing it up) I've moved over to vaultwarden for my family's password management.
I don't think I'll stop supporting bitwarden even if I'm not using their platform directly though as I do like the service I've had from them for something like 4 or 5 years now.
How'd you manage to lose data? I've never even noticed the sync service be down, let alone lose anything.
One time I ran out of disk space due to it having created since 200gb log files (not sure why that happened) then another time I think I broke something whilst moving from I've got to another. I can't remember what else happened to break my instances but it was always big enough there I couldn't restore it to working it after hours if work, so if just export the vaults from everyone's machine, nuke it, start again and try to learn how I broke it so I didn't do it again.
I believe I was the problem for most of them except the massive log files one, but still, it was probably my fault as the things usually are. (Guess whose wife has them well trained at accepting the blame 😋)
Oh, sorry. I thought you were saying the Bitwarden cloud server was losing your passwords or something.
If you have regular backups, not an issue. I use bitwarden self hosted through home assistant, which makes daily backups trivial.