Rust Server Hosting Canada

What Is Rust Server Hosting?

Rust server hosting is a managed service that runs a Rust dedicated server on professional hardware in a datacentre, around the clock, so your community can farm, build and raid on the same map until wipe day, whether or not you are online. Every GTX Gaming Rust server includes up to 100GB of NVMe storage, automatic backups, enterprise DDoS protection and a web control panel, and our ready-made plans pair each slot count with at least 12GB of RAM, so jobs like installing plugins, wiping the map or loading a custom map take a few clicks instead of an evening of config files.

People search for it as a Rust dedicated server, a Rust game server, Rust server rental or simply a Rust server to rent, and they all mean the same thing: an always-on Rust server with your map, your plugins and your rules.

What Is Rust?

Rust is the multiplayer survival game from Facepunch Studios, who develop and publish it: gather resources, craft, build a base and defend it from other players, or raid theirs. It was fully released on 8 February 2018, and Facepunch has shipped a content update every month since, with more than a million Steam user reviews along the way.

• Survival meets PvP: every base can be raided, so clans, alliances and grudges shape each wipe.
• Procedural or custom maps: every wipe can bring a new procedurally generated map, or a map built by the community.
• Monthly updates: the latest when we wrote this in October 2026 was the Livestock Update of 1 October 2026, which added cows and sheep, a livestock economy at the Stables and the Biofuel Generator.

Why Rent a Rust Server?

Facepunch makes the Rust dedicated server free, so you could run it on a spare machine at home. Most communities rent a Rust server instead:

• Always online: bases, upkeep and decay keep running 24 hours a day, and your players expect the server to be up whenever they log in.
• Enough memory: Facepunch's server guide asks for 12GB of free RAM, more for a 6k map, on top of whatever else the machine is doing.
• Nothing to run at home: no ports to forward on your router, no PC left on overnight, and no home connection exposed to attacks.
• Backups and support: automatic backups and a 24/7 support team mean a broken plugin or a bad wipe is an inconvenience, not the end of your server.

How to Set Up & Join Your Rust Server

Your server is set up the moment you order. From there, getting your community onto the map typically looks like this:

• Order: choose your plan and your location, and your server is ready within seconds.
• Name it: set the server name (server.hostname), description and banner in server.cfg under Configuration Files: the name your players see in the server browser.
• Make yourself admin: add your SteamID64 as an owner in users.cfg, as our guide to becoming admin on your Rust server shows.
• Join: start Rust, press F1 to open the console, type connect [IP]:[port] and press Enter, or find your server in the in-game server browser.

Rust's default game port is UDP 28015, but your server may use a different one, so always copy the full address from your control panel. A server appears in the browser once its query port is reachable, under Community or Modded depending on your plugins. These servers are for Rust on PC (Steam). Rust Console Edition is a separate game, developed and published by Double Eleven for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with its own servers and its own wipe schedule.

Rust Wipe Day: Forced Wipes, Blueprints & Schedules

Wipe day is the heartbeat of Rust. Facepunch releases its monthly update on the first Thursday of the month, and that update forces a map wipe on every server. The server's built-in wipe timer follows the same rhythm: by default it counts down to the first Thursday of each month at 19:00 London time, and it can also be set to weekly or biweekly.

• Forced wipe: resets the map. Blueprints survive unless you also delete the player.blueprints file, which many servers do once a month for a full wipe.
• Your own wipes: many communities add weekly or biweekly map wipes between forced wipes, to keep the map fresh.
• Tell your players: add the wipe schedule to your server tags (monthly, biweekly or weekly), so players can see it in the server browser.

Your control panel has Monthly Update and Wipe and Wipe Server tools for wipe day, and Scheduled Tasks for automatic restarts, updates and backups. Our knowledgebase guide to updating and wiping your server with a seed change on forced wipe day walks you through it.

Map Seeds, World Size & Custom Maps

Most servers run a procedural map, built from two settings: the seed (server.seed, any number from 0 to 2147483647) and the world size (server.worldsize, from 1000 to 6000). The same seed and size always give the same map, so changing the seed at wipe time rolls a brand new one. Facepunch's guide notes that the larger the map, the more disk space and memory you need.

Custom maps, built by the community, load from a direct download link: upload the .map file to a public host that is online 24/7, set server.levelurl to its link and remove the seed and world size settings. New players download the map from that link when they join, so it must stay online. Maps made with RustEdit also need the Rust Edit extension, installed from the Mod Manager on top of Oxide or Carbon. Our guide covers adding a custom map to your Rust server.

Oxide (uMod) vs Carbon: Which Plugin Framework?

Plugins turn a vanilla server into anything from a 2x server with kits to a full PvE community. Rust has two plugin frameworks, and a server runs one of them at a time:

• Oxide (uMod): the long-running community modding framework, now distributed through uMod. Facepunch's own guide notes that after every Rust server update, Oxide must be updated too. See installing and configuring Oxide plugins.
• Carbon: a drop-in replacement for Oxide, built so that most Oxide plugins work in it. It updates itself, keeps permissions in SQL and has an in-game interface to install, update and configure plugins.

Oxide and Carbon cannot run on the same server at once. Switching from Oxide to Carbon is straightforward, as Carbon keeps the same folder and plugin structure, but test your plugins after the move. Nothing is preinstalled: the Mod Manager installs Carbon or uMod (Oxide) in one click, with staging branches for testing, and UMod/Carbon Plugins is a built-in browser with over 1500 uMod plugins, each with a one-click Install button. The Mod Manager also adds the Discord and Rust Edit extensions and a MySQL Database with phpMyAdmin for plugins that need one. Permissions for Oxide plugins are explained in configuring plugin permissions, and gather rates in setting custom gather rates.

Community or Modded: How Plugins Affect Your Listing

Facepunch's guidelines decide which tab of the server browser your server appears in. A server with plugins should be listed under Modded, but some plugins are fine under Community: admin plugins that do not change gameplay, skip-queue and chat colour plugins, custom maps, and changes to vanilla convars such as team size or decay. Plugins that change gameplay, such as gather rates, kits or item spawns, and any plugin that creates or changes UI, belong under Modded. Your server must never call itself official, as official servers are the ones Facepunch runs. Our guide to adjusting decay shows one of those vanilla convars.

Server Browser Tags, Name & Header Image

Set server.tags to describe your server: the browser shows up to four tags, such as your wipe schedule (monthly, biweekly or weekly), the difficulty (vanilla, hardcore or softcore), your region, and styles like PvE or roleplay. The Modded, Oxide and Carbon tags are added automatically. Add a header image and a 256x256 server icon (server.logoimage), which also shows in Rust+. See adding server tags and adding a header image.

The Rust+ Companion App on Your Server

Rust+ is Facepunch's official companion app for iOS and Android. Once players pair it with your server, they can check their base, chat with their team, follow the map with teammates, vending machines and live events, and control Smart Switches and Smart Alarms from their phone. The server needs its companion port, by default 28082 (the game port plus 67), to be reachable, and it switches Rust+ off by itself if its connectivity test fails. Our guide covers using the Rust+ app on your server.

Backups, Updates, Restarts & RCON

A good routine keeps your map and your community safe:

• Backups: scheduled backups run for you, Backup Server and Restore Server take and restore a backup when you want one, and the Backup Manager keeps them. Off-site backups are taken daily and kept for 6 months.
• Updates: Steam Update installs the newest Rust server version, and Oxide must follow every server update; see updating Rust and Oxide.
• Scheduled Tasks: automatic restarts, updates and backups on a timer, with warning messages for your players as shown in automatic restarts with warning messages.
• Web Console and Web RCON: run server commands from your browser without being in the game, explained in using RCON and WebRCON, and follow the Log Viewer and the Live Graphs.

How Much Does Rust Server Hosting Cost in Canada?

Pricing is simple: you choose your slots and your memory, with up to 100GB of NVMe storage included on every server:

• 50 slots and 10GB: from CA$17.77/mo. A small, low-population vanilla server on a smaller map.
• Survivor, 50 slots and 12GB: CA$30.05/mo. A clan server or a small community.
• Raider, 100 slots and 16GB: CA$53.85/mo. Active communities and plugin packs.
• Warlord, 160 slots, 20GB and High CPU Priority: CA$88.44/mo. Busy public servers and wipe-day peaks.
• 200 slots and 12GB: CA$76.93/mo. Large public servers, with more memory at checkout.

Every slot tier from 50 to 500 is in the full plan list at the top of this page, and you can build your own mix at checkout, up to 1000 slots and 32GB of RAM. All plans include instant setup, DDoS protection, automatic backups and 24/7 support, with no setup fee and no contract. Billing is monthly by default, with three-month, six-month and yearly cycles at 5%, 10% and 15% off, and you can change plan or cancel at any time.

How Many Slots & How Much RAM Does a Rust Server Need?

Choose a slot for every player who will be online at the same time on your busiest night, which is usually wipe day. Facepunch's guide names no fixed player limit, but notes that the more players a server has, the faster its CPU needs to be, which is why Warlord includes High CPU Priority. For memory, the guide asks for 12GB of free RAM, and more for a 6k map, and says the figures highly depend on how the server is used and how many players it has. On our own 50 slot demo server, a fresh default map used about 3.3GB of memory after startup, with nobody online. So our ready-made plans start at 12GB: Survivor has 12GB, Raider 16GB and Warlord 20GB. The included 10GB suits a small, low-population vanilla server on a smaller map; bigger maps, more players and plugin packs need more, up to 32GB, and you can change your RAM at any time.

Locations for Rust Server Hosting

Raids, roof camping and monument fights are no fun with lag, so host close to your players. GTX Gaming runs Rust server hosting from a Canadian datacentre in Quebec plus 17 more locations worldwide: New York, Ashburn, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Los Angeles and Portland in the USA; London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Stockholm in Europe; Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore and Mumbai in Asia-Pacific; plus Moscow. Some locations carry a surcharge, shown at checkout. Use the live ping test above to find the lowest-latency location for your players, pick it at checkout, and if you need to move later our support team can migrate your server.

Rust Server Hosting Glossary

Quick definitions of the terms you'll meet across Rust, our control panel and the Rust dedicated server:

Setup Guides & Help for Your Rust Server

Once your Rust server is live, our knowledgebase covers the common tasks:

• Wiping with a seed change on forced wipe day
• Installing Oxide plugins
• Adding a custom map
• Becoming admin
• Upgrading or downgrading your player slots
• All Rust help guides

Our 24/7 support team is on live chat and tickets for anything the guides don't cover:

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