A review of my experience with Bitwarden after several years of self-hosting it, and why I decided to move away from the password manager. Almost four years ago I published a guide on how to run your own LastPass on hardened OpenBSD , in which I explained how to set up an OpenBSD instance, either as a cloud instance or as a Raspberry Pi bare metal installation, that would host Vaultwarden as a backend for the Bitwarden client applications. After having used a similar approach for myself for several years now, I came to the conclusion that I do not recommend the use of Bitwarden any longer. Let me explain. Freemium dual-license password manager Wikipedia describes Bitwarden as _a freemium open-source password management service that is used to store sensitive information […] owned and developed by Bitwarden , Inc. , and that is now almost ten years old.…