A Better Vaultwarden Deployment

Introduction Earlier this year I looked at switching from Bitwarden (online service) to self hosting Vaultwarden. The post I wrote was fairly high level and focused on different container options. It was a fairly generic deployment that didn’t go into much detail. Configuration and security considerations were woefully neglected in that post. It also didn’t go into detail about how I’d integrate it into the VPS that I use as VPN, DNS, and now password vault server....

November 26, 2023 · John

Switching from NGINX to Caddy

Introduction My go to web server has always been NGINX and it’s been my default choice since I started this blog. Any time I need a web server it’s without question NGINX. That is until recently. I’ve been playing around with containerization and specifically making my vaultwarden deployment better. But that’s for another post. As I was looking into this, the Caddy web server kept coming up. Vaultwarden seems to really like it....

October 21, 2023 · John

Vaultwarden a Self Hosted Password Vault

Introduction When Lastpass first came on the scene I jumped on it because of how easy it makes syncing passwords between devices. Previously, I was using a local password manager that was only on my computer. Thankfully, mobile logins weren’t nearly as necessary for daily life back then. However, I still needed my computer to log into anything on my phone. Over the years, Lastpass started having security incidents. This isn’t surprising with how big it became....

March 16, 2023 · John