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I've been hosting the Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/Prowlarr stack, Plex, HomeAssistant and a Misskey server and a Matrix server for close friends. I had considered Bitwarden too, but at $10/year I'd rather just pay to have it hosted reliably, while I self-host things that don't outright make it hard for me to do stuff if they happen to go down.

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I just was introduced to Tdarr the other day, and it is a great addition to the *rr stack. It does a great job in optimizing media files based on what you value (size, bitrate, container, etc)

I'm aiming for moderate bitrate, 1080p, hvec containers. In running through 900 of the 5000 media files I've already saved 3.4TB of storage space.

https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr

FWIW, BitWarden syncs your passwords locally. The only time you would run into issues is if you need to access using a new device, or a new password that you haven't synced (ex signed up today but haven't used the BitWarden app).

The only scenario self hosting BitWarden is a problem is if I am away, there has been a power outage at my house and nobody I can ask to switch on the server, and I have misplaced my phone and laptop and need to access my passwords. Pretty unlikely. I have some neighbours I can trust too, so I'm pretty sure that scenario will basically never happen.

(I will need to make sure everything starts up properly on startup though. Or maybe my 12 year old neighbour will get a lesson in linux.)

My SATA controller died once in my server so I got to test my disaster recovery (I backup databases and some Docker volumes nightly offsite with Duplicati). Got Vaultwarden and Mariadb back up on a cheap VPS from a database dump in no time.

I hadn't realized that Bitwarden would work fine locally (in hindsight it makes sense as otherwise it'd be useless without an internet connection). Maybe I'll try self hosting it then.

Keep in mind that Bitwarden also works offline. If ever your client cannot reach the server, it will still have all entries saved locally. You can then back up all that and restore later, if your server should ever have a problem

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