What happens when you call them?

Looks at 11 year old receipt… “oops”

If I was in your shoes I’d probably build my own hypervisor box and rent colo space for it. Strictly because your requirement to migrate VMs to your own system later is more trouble than it’s worth.

I don’t know for sure but I’d guess you would pay less for colo than renting someone’s server for a year or two. Renting bare metal is stupid expensive.

This can’t be a real product.

I self host Bitwarden and it’s free to self host. You only have to pay for a license if you need multiple users or want to use their cloud services, I believe. My instance is 100% self hosted and completely isolated from the internet, and it works fine.

I self host it because I self host everything, but for credential managers I would never trust any 3rd party closed source utility or cloud service. Before I used a password manager I tracked them all manually with a text file and a TrueCrypt volume. I think giving unrelated credentials to 3rd parties is asking for trouble - they definitely don’t care as much about them as you do!

If you’re going to self host any credential manager, make sure you have an appropriate backup strategy, and make sure you have at least one client synced regularly so that you can still access passwords if the server itself dies for some reason.

Hahahaha no.

Same. Pretty sure I own every Bethesda rpg right up through Fallout 4 and Skyrim. I just couldn’t be bothered with Fallout 76 bullshit, and the handful of my friends that played Starfield said it was just sad.

I don’t much care what they release next. It won’t hold a candle to BG3.

My weapon of choice

Listen buddy, let’s be realistic, I’m no professional chef.

I really love Mexican food so sometimes my dinner is pulling a tortilla out of the bag and eating it.

If you pass this recipe on please give me credit.

Mac & Cheese, the polite weirdos to our north call it Kraft Dinner.

I had no idea I was qualified to be a cookbook author.

Of course you are. Every other human on the planet is issued a plunger at birth. What’s wrong with you?

Same way I do at work. Different accounts and passwords for each service internally. Any service exposed to the net (game and email servers mostly) is on a segregated network and each machine has unique credentials to help prevent lateral movement. Self hosted Bitwarden tracks it all.

I do it for the same reason I require outbound firewall rules for almost everything on my home network - I’m a masochist.

I’ve heard it can cause problems in some models, so people need to do their research. With my truck it’s dead easy and are no drawbacks.

Remove the cellular modem.

All well and good until you lose another disk 2 days into re-striping. Which is not that uncommon because that puts a lot of load on the surviving disks! Remember, RAID is not a backup.

I always buy new because time spent fixing a problem or recovering data with a used drive ain’t worth it to me. It may be to you. A manufacturer refurb might be ok, in fact I do buy refurb monitors sometimes, but not data storage.

Posting in solidarity. I don’t have an answer but I share all your concerns and would love to know if there are options for this as well. Until such a time as a relatively trustworthy option exists I’ll be avoiding it the same as you.

And ruin my uptime stats? Are you mad?!?!

Among the many things I run are my own email servers so, yeah gotta be up all the time. And yes I have a UPS behind every electronic device in my house except the TV because if that dies I get to buy a new one.

I’ve probably spent upwards of $2000 on UPSes and replacement batteries over the last 20 years, but if it saved even one of my servers from taking a hit it was worth it. Servers are expensive and my time is valuable to me.