Bitwarden Hosting

Bitwarden is an open-source password manager designed to help individuals, families, and businesses securely store, manage, and share sensitive information like passwords, passkeys, and other credentials.

Launched as a transparent alternative to proprietary paid password managers, Bitwarden emphasizes security, accessibility, and ease of use across various platforms, including web browsers, mobile devices, and desktops.

As a self-hostable solution, Bitwarden comes with numerous advantages over SaaS services such as LasPass, 1Password, and Dashlane:

• It is free to use and offers features on par with premium paid offerings of other password managers.
• You can self-host Bitwarden, offering complete and unparalleled levels of security and privacy.
• You can use the VPS you host your Bitwarden on, to also host websites, text and video chat, and file-sharing services, cutting subscription costs across the board.
• Bitwarden scales with your business. Just 4-5 users negate costs of fully managed Bitwarden servers, when compared to your typicall SaaS premium plans. For businesses and organizations with dozens or hundreds of users the savings are substantial.
• Having managed Bitwarden hosting gives you a virtual IT team to assist you when you need help the most.

Think of Bitwarden as a digital vault used to create, store, and manage secure and sensitive information. This includes things such as logins, passwords, notes, and credit card information. It allows you to access your most commonly visited websites with a single click, and autofills forms. The entire purpose of password managers is to create dozens or hundreds of unique passwords, which you'll never need to remember. Bitwarden itself is accessible with a single master password or biometric login. This means you only ever need to remember one single password and keep it secure. That's it!

Bitwarden offers secure features such as password generation, autofill, and secure sharing. In addition to top-tier security, Bitwarden also has cross-platform functionality, including mobile, desktop, and browser use, allowing you to access your favorite websites at home or on the road.

It allows you to quickly and easily create and use very secure logins across all your favorite websites and applications.

While paid alternatives can limit the number of logins, as an open-source solution, Bitwarden has no such limitations. Similarly, you don't have to pay extra if you wish to have multiple people using their own personal itteration of Bitwarden on your server. You can add secure and private Bitwarden password managers instances for yourself, your family, your friends, or even your coworkers and clients. This flexibility makes it ideal for corporations, and large organizations as you keep your business logins secure without paying a per-user licence each month.

RoseHosting Bitwarden hosting offers the ultimate in privacy, security, and flexibility. Not only do you get all the advantages of open-source, but we actively negate the biggest downside of open-source and turn it into a benefit with our 100% uptime SLA and 24/7 white-glove support.

There are multiple proprietary SaaS Bitwarden alternatives requiring a recurring monthly subscription. The nature of such products includes an unnecessary "per user" monthly cost that can add up quickly. Bitwarden, on the other hand, is an open-source product, meaning that the source code is available to anyone for free.

The most cost-effective solution, then, is to use your own Bitwarden hosting VPS. The only downside with hosting it yourself is that individuals or smaller businesses may lack IT support capable of installing and optimizing Bitwarden. Regular backups and updates are also mandatory to retain the highest level of security. Thankfully, RoseHosting Bitwarden hosting solution comes with fully managed support, offering you the best of both worlds. Your very own 24/7 white-glove virtual IT support team is ready to install, optimize, transfer, backup, and update your software and apps for you while paying only a flat fee for the server. This allows you to take a business from 10 employees to 100, and you'll not be charged ten times the monthly fee. Furthermore, having only six users on a premium password manager plan covers the entire cost of a managed VPS server.

A Virtual Private Server, or VPS, offers a virtual environment on a physical server. Virtual servers are isolated from one another and have dedicated resources that belong to you, and you alone. This allows you to host your websites, Bitwarden for as many people as you like, and any other software you might need.

There are many similarities between Bitwarden and SaaS paid alternatives such as 1Password, LastPass, and Dashlane. In saying that, they also come with a number of crucial differences. The most obvious difference is that Bitwarden is an open-source solution, which you can host on a VPS or dedicated server, offering many benefits. There are also several "hidden benefits" of choosing Bitwarden as your chat platform of choice:

• LastPass has publicly disclosed being hacked at least four times: in 2011, 2015, 2021, and 2022. Worst still, in 2022, two separate incidents occurred. One involved the theft of source code and technical information. In November of that same year, the hackers stole customer data as well as partially encrypted vault data.
• Dashlane has been removing features over the years, such as discontinuing its desktop app and removing its free tier accounts.
• SaaS companies in general are notorious for increasing their prices over time, once they build up a large enough user base. This is particularly impactful when you pay a per-person monthly subscription.

Beyond these differences, most password managers serve a similar purpose. Bitwarden is great in that it does the basics right. It doesn't try to get fancy and offer features that aren't functional. Its user interface doesn't try to get fancy, but it is far from clunky like many other alternatives. Bitwarden just works. It does exactly what you want from a password manager, and it does it exceptionally well.