I think you misread my post. I know what the benefits of their paid teir are, because literally read their page.
I was asking why people self host. As you don't self host...I'm not sure why you're responding, especially not with passive aggressive language like that.
Well they have an app for all the platforms i use, customer support, open sourced code, previous and existing customers that have experience and that recommend them freely, a track record of success, a verifiable business address, operations in a country whose legal system I recognise and offers me certain protections, the ability for me to pay using my preferred method of payment, and most important - not some willfully ignorant representative giving fallacious arguments against using a service.
Well partly yes. This is a self hosted community so I asked a self hosted question.
The other part (I.e. why I haven't asked anywhere about hardware solutions) is because I am not aware of a hardware solution that could do what a software solution can do: that is, store all my passwords, credit card details, OTP codes etc and work with any service that requires a password.
If you know of a hardware solution that does the same then by all means share! I am open to alternative ideas as well.
Appreciate the input - that's exactly where my heads at right now. Didn't expect so many answers - really glad I asked, been very interesting reading different folks views on this.
I can imagine the enterprise/business options are better than bitwarden but as an individual user I don't need that and would only have the individual plan. It's a little over twice the price of BitWarden and while every company I've worked at in recent years has had 1password i don't see it mentioned on here anywhere near as often as BitWarden.
This was also the most compelling reason for me to consider it.
I do think that balanced against the time and effort and risk of me fucking up outweighs this benefit. But I can totally see why for some that balance goes the other way.
Thanks, I did consider the syncing would be fine. But if the reason to do it is just hobbying then I'll pass, I have too many hobbies at this point and managing what I'm already hosting is giving me enough of a scratch for that itch
I wish this worked, but it only does for things that are popular.
As it stands I think I'm just going to have to back up my entire media collection for fear of not being able to get a copy during retirement - when I plan to watch a shit tonne of TV.
I think you misread my post. I know what the benefits of their paid teir are, because literally read their page.
I was asking why people self host. As you don't self host...I'm not sure why you're responding, especially not with passive aggressive language like that.