Rust Server Hosting Rent Your Dedicated Rust Server in Canada
Premium Rust server hosting from GTX Gaming's Canadian and worldwide datacentres with instant setup, one-click Oxide, uMod & Carbon, automated wipes, RustIO live map and 24/7 support. Rent a powerful Rust dedicated server (primitive mode, modded or vanilla) from just CA$17.77/mo.
Rust Server Hosting Plans & Pricing
Three sized presets plus a fully custom build, from a 50-slot starter to a 250+ slot wipe-day monster. Upgrade or downgrade anytime.
Survivor
- 2,000m² world size
- 10GB DDR5 RAM
- 100GB NVMe SSD
- Normal CPU priority
Raider
- 3,000m² world size
- 12GB DDR5 RAM
- 100GB NVMe SSD
- Normal CPU priority
Warlord
- 4,500m² world size
- 16GB DDR5 RAM
- 100GB NVMe SSD
- Normal CPU priority
Custom
- Pick your player slots (up to 250+)
- Pick your RAM (10 to 32GB DDR5)
- Pick your world size (up to 6,000m²+)
- Pick your CPU priority (Normal or High)
Need something specific? Customise any plan at checkout to choose slots, world size, RAM, NVMe storage and CPU priority independently. Or read the FAQ for help sizing.
Rust server hosting is the service of running a Rust dedicated server on a remote computer 24/7 so your community can play together on a shared map from anywhere in the world. GTX Gaming offers premium Canadian Rust server hosting from CA$17.77/mo with instant setup, one-click Oxide / uMod / Carbon plugin support, automated wipes with seed changes, the RustIO live map, Web RCON, MySQL + phpMyAdmin, enterprise DDoS protection and 24/7 support across 11 worldwide locations including Quebec, New York, Los Angeles, London, Frankfurt, Singapore and Sydney.
Rust Server Hosting Control Panel
Why Choose GTX Gaming for Rust Server Hosting
Every Rust hosting feature you need on every plan. Nothing held back behind a higher tier.
Enterprise DDoS Protection
Multi-Tbps DDoS mitigation at every datacentre. Critical for Rust servers, which get attacked more than almost any other game.
Instant Setup
Server provisioned in under 60 seconds. Login details, RCON password and IP delivered to your inbox immediately after payment.
Oxide, uMod & Carbon
All three plugin frameworks supported with one-click install. Switch between them anytime. 1-Click Plugin Installer covers the major Oxide plugin catalogue.
Auto Wipes & Seed Changes
Schedule wipes for first-Thursday, weekly or any cadence. Choose what to wipe (world / blueprints / full) and randomise the seed in the same task.
RustIO Live Map
Browser-based live world map for your community. One-click install, automatic updates. Players see player positions, monuments and the in-game day/night cycle.
Web RCON + MySQL
Full Rust RCON in your browser. Plus 1-click MySQL + PHPMyAdmin for plugins that need a database (Server Rewards, ServerArmour, BetterChat, etc.).
Offsite Backups
Every restart auto-clones SERVERIDENTITY (and Oxide if used) to our offsite backup machine. Manual backup, restore and download from the control panel anytime.
24/7 Live Support
Real Rust admins on the support team, 24 hours a day. Tickets answered in 1-15 minutes via your client area, even at 3am on wipe day.
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X / 9950X
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D
High-frequency server RAM
RAID configuration
Enterprise edge DDoS protection
64-bit Rust server tools
Including extreme-performance Ryzen 9 7950X tiers
Why GTX Gaming Is the Canada's #1 Rust Server Hosting Provider
Twelve years of dedicated Rust hosting experience, thousands of communities served, and the hardware, network and support stack to keep your wipe day running at full FPS.
Choosing a Rust server hosting provider is a long-term decision. Wipe-day FPS, DDoS resilience, plugin support, backup discipline and support response time can make or break a community. Here's what to look for, and how GTX Gaming delivers on every criterion:
| What to Look For | Why It Matters for Rust | GTX Gaming |
|---|---|---|
| High-frequency CPU | The Rust server is single-threaded. Anything below 4GHz tanks FPS during 100-player wipe raids. | ✓ Intel Core i9-13900K (5.7GHz) and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X / 7950X3D |
| DDR5 ECC RAM | Rust is RAM-hungry. ECC prevents silent corruption across multi-month wipes. | ✓ DDR5-5600 ECC on every plan, 10GB to 24GB+ |
| NVMe Gen5 storage | Procedural map chunk loads must complete in milliseconds or players rubber-band. | ✓ NVMe Gen5 SSDs in RAID across all locations |
| Enterprise DDoS protection | Rust servers are attacked more than any other survival game. Residential-grade filtering fails instantly. | ✓ Multi-Tbps edge mitigation, included free |
| One-click Oxide / Carbon | Manually installing modding frameworks, then patching them, eats hours per wipe. | ✓ One click in the Mod Manager, with auto-update tasks |
| Automated wipes & seed changes | First-Thursday wipes shouldn't require waking up at midnight to change a seed. | ✓ Wipe Server tool with scheduler, blueprint / map / full options |
| Offsite backups | One corrupted SERVERIDENTITY save can lose a community's entire wipe. | ✓ Auto-clone to offsite storage on every restart |
| Canadian + global locations | Latency under 50ms is the difference between hitting a bow shot and missing. | ✓ Quebec + 10 global datacentres including the US, UK and EU, with the live ping test above |
| Real Rust admins on support | Generic L1 support doesn't know what an Oxide permission group is. You'll wait hours. | ✓ 24/7 Rust-trained support, 1-15 min ticket response |
| Money-back guarantee | You shouldn't need a long-term contract to test if a host can run your wipe day. | ✓ 24-hour full refund, no setup fees, no contracts |
| Long-term reputation | New hosts disappear. The hosts that survive a decade have the engineering and the cashflow. | ✓ Hosting Rust since 2014, 4.7 / 5 from 1,377+ Trustpilot reviews |
"Server runs at full FPS during heavy raids, Oxide and Carbon plugins install in literally one click, and the wipe scheduler means I don't have to wake up at midnight on the first Thursday anymore. RustIO live map works flawlessly, RCON web console saved us during an admin emergency. Pricing is fair for the hardware. Cheaper alternatives I've used before lagged at 100 players, GTX hasn't blinked at 160." Verified Trustpilot review · Rust community admin · read all reviews on Trustpilot →
Rust Server Hosting Locations: Canada & Worldwide
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Rust Server Hosting Reviews on Trustpilot
GTX Gaming absolutely excels at customer service
GTX Gaming excels at customer service. Every ticket is answered within minutes and issues resolved promptly and professionally. Nothing but wonderful things to say about the service GTX provides. I've had the pleasure of interacting with several of their support agents: Tom H, Rui P, Jamie R, John K, Robert P, James K, and man, they're all excellent! Kudos to the entire team and thank you for the service you provide to the gaming community. They've enabled our entire crew to spend many hours having a total blast.
Rock-solid Rust server, smooth wipes
Been hosting our Rust community on GTX for two wipes now and the experience has been excellent. Server runs at full FPS during heavy raids, Oxide and Carbon plugins install in literally one click, and the wipe scheduler means I don't have to wake up at midnight on the first Thursday anymore. RustIO live map works flawlessly, RCON web console saved us during an admin emergency. Pricing is fair for the hardware. Cheaper alternatives I've used before lagged at 100 players, GTX hasn't blinked at 160.
Jamie Redpath is the pro we all want
Jamie Redpath was extremely patient and professional. He helped guide us through a server issue that was causing some stress. As it turned out, part of the problem was on our end and part on the server side. Jamie calmly helped us find and correct the issues and kindly assisted us with a memory issue that we didn't even know we had! Would that all CS pros were as knowledgeable and patient as he.
Rust Server Hosting FAQ
Instantly! Your Rust server is activated immediately after payment. You'll receive your control panel login, RCON details and server IP within seconds and can be in-game in under 2 minutes.
Yes, all three frameworks are supported and installable from our Mod Manager with one click. Oxide/uMod gets you the entire ecosystem of community plugins, Carbon offers the same plugin compatibility with significantly better performance, and you can switch between them at any time. Plugins themselves are uploaded via our 1-Click Plugin Installer, the file manager or SFTP, and updates are automated via Scheduled Tasks.
Absolutely. Our Wipe Server tool lets you choose exactly what to wipe (world only, world + blueprints, full wipe) and you can change the map seed at the same time. Wipes can be triggered manually or scheduled via the Scheduled Tasks system to fire automatically on first-Thursday wipe day, weekly, bi-weekly, or any custom cadence.
Yes, GTX Gaming Rust hosting fully supports modded gameplay. With Oxide/uMod or Carbon you can run heavy plugin packs (Kits, ZLevels, Skinbox, BetterChat, Server Rewards, Backpacks, Raidable Bases, etc.), gather/scrap/loot multipliers, custom maps from RustEdit, shop systems, and Discord integrations. Larger plugin loads benefit from our Raider (12GB) or Warlord (16GB) plans for headroom.
Rust is RAM-hungry because of map size and entity count. As a rule of thumb: 50 slots with a 2,000m² map needs 10GB RAM (Survivor); 100 slots / 3,000m² needs 12GB (Raider, our most popular); 160 slots / 4,500m² needs 16GB (Warlord); and 200+ slots on a 6,000m² map wants 24GB. Use the Custom build to dial in exact slots, RAM and world size. Heavy plugin packs add 1-3GB on top, so bump up one tier if you're running 30+ Oxide plugins.
We offer a 24-hour money-back guarantee on Rust server hosting. If your server isn't right for you within the first 24 hours of order, contact us for a full refund, no questions asked.
Yes, every Rust server includes enterprise-grade DDoS protection at no extra cost. Our datacentres mitigate multi-Tbps attacks at the edge so the malicious traffic never reaches your server. Rust communities are frequent attack targets during PvP rivalries; with GTX you stay online.
Yes. Whether your Rust world is currently hosted locally on your PC or with another provider, the SERVERIDENTITY folder (and the OXIDE folder if you're using Oxide/uMod) can be uploaded directly via our SFTP or file manager. If you'd like us to handle the migration, open a support ticket and our team will move the world for you, free of charge.
You can technically host a Rust server on your own PC, but it has serious downsides for Rust specifically: your server only stays online while your PC is on (Rust raids run 24/7, so you'll lose progress); you'll need port forwarding (a security risk); residential broadband has zero DDoS protection (Rust servers get attacked constantly); and your in-game frame rate suffers because Rust the client and Rust the server compete for the same CPU cores. Renting a dedicated Rust server from GTX gives you 24/7 uptime, enterprise DDoS protection, dedicated 5.7GHz CPU cores, and one-click wipes, for less than a coffee per week.
No, GTX Gaming Rust hosting is for the PC Steam version of Rust only. Rust Console Edition uses Facepunch's first-party hosting and does not allow self-hosted dedicated servers. If you play Rust on Xbox or PlayStation you cannot connect to a hosted PC server.
GTX Gaming has been hosting Rust servers since 2014 and is rated 4.7 / 5 from over 1,377 verified Trustpilot reviews. Our Canadian Rust server hosting runs on Intel Core i9-13900K (5.7GHz) and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X / 7950X3D CPUs, DDR5-5600 ECC RAM and NVMe Gen5 SSDs in our Quebec datacentre, with one-click Oxide / uMod / Carbon installation, automated wipes, RustIO live map, Web RCON, MySQL + phpMyAdmin, enterprise DDoS protection and 24/7 support. The Raider 100-slot plan at CA$46.74/mo is our most popular Canadian Rust hosting tier.
GTX Gaming is not the cheapest Rust server hosting on the market, but it is one of the best value premium hosts. The Survivor 50-slot plan starts at CA$26.49/mo, and the Custom Build starts from CA$17.77/mo for smaller setups. Cheaper Rust hosts (CA$9-18/mo) typically use shared CPU cores, oversubscribed RAM and have no DDoS protection, which leads to lag at peak times and outages on wipe day. GTX uses dedicated 5.7GHz CPU cores, DDR5 ECC RAM, NVMe Gen5 storage and edge DDoS protection on every Rust server, with no setup fees, no contracts and a 24-hour money-back guarantee.
Free Rust server hosting does not exist as a sustainable product. Running a Rust server requires dedicated 5.7GHz CPU cores, 10-24GB of DDR5 RAM, NVMe storage and DDoS-protected bandwidth, all of which cost real money. Anyone offering free Rust hosting is either limiting it to a tiny number of slots, displaying ads, harvesting data, or shutting down within weeks. The closest legitimate option is our 24-hour money-back guarantee, which lets you try paid Rust server hosting risk-free, or our Custom Build from CA$17.77/mo, which is the most affordable serious Rust hosting in Canada.
Rust server hosting is a managed service: GTX installs the Rust dedicated server software, gives you a one-click control panel for plugins, wipes, RCON and backups, and takes care of operating system updates, security patches and DDoS mitigation. A Rust VPS gives you a bare Linux or Windows machine with no Rust software installed, no control panel and no support; you have to install Rust, configure the firewall, install Oxide / Carbon manually, set up scheduled wipes via cron, and patch the OS yourself. Most Rust communities want managed Rust server hosting because it is dramatically faster to set up, easier to maintain and includes proper DDoS protection out of the box.
Yes, every GTX Gaming Rust server hosting plan is billed monthly with no minimum contract and no setup fees. You can upgrade to a larger tier, downgrade to a smaller one, or cancel at any time directly from your client area. Quarterly, semi-annual and annual billing cycles are also available with optional discounts if you prefer to pay less frequently.