Hello,

Curious which OS server owners are running. Many years ago Linux was not the best when hosting Rust servers and curious if these issues have been resolved now and it is stable?

At the moment ~43% of the servers run on Linux, however only 13% of total rust population play on servers which are hosted on Linux. Facepunch still mostly do not care about testing there, but in general it is much better than before indeed.

misticos

At the moment ~43% of the servers run on Linux, however only 13% of total rust population play on servers which are hosted on Linux. Facepunch still mostly do not care about testing there, but in general it is much better than before indeed.

Thank you. 
Can you PM me please.

Official servers run on windows? That's pretty lame.

Harvey9933

Thank you. 
Can you PM me please.

sure, why? misticos#2334

I use debian as a server OS

Windows here.

Windows (for test only) , ubuntu and debian :)

misticos

At the moment ~43% of the servers run on Linux, however only 13% of total rust population play on servers which are hosted on Linux. Facepunch still mostly do not care about testing there, but in general it is much better than before indeed.

I would not agree with what you wrote, I quote "only 13% of total rust population play on servers which are hosted on Linux".
Who cares where Rust is located, is it linux or windows. 90% of players they are interested in the ping from the server and do not investigate whether Rust is located on Linux or Windows. In any case, the game is identical.

jure12

Who cares where Rust is located, is it linux or windows.

FacePunch do for sure. They dropped Linux support for the client a while back, which I was VERY disappointed to find out when I recently built a SteamOS Holo PC and Rust wouldn't connect me to my servers. Turns out it was an EAC issue as it's now all Windows emulated under Steam OS and not native Linux. Who's to say that FacePunch won't explicitly deny running server code on Linux in the future as a security feature?

All of that aside, agreeing or disagreeing with a fact is irrelevant, whether players care or not. It's 13% apparently.

😂 😘

jure12

I would not agree with what you wrote, I quote "only 13% of total rust population play on servers which are hosted on Linux".
Who cares where Rust is located, is it linux or windows. 90% of players they are interested in the ping from the server and do not investigate whether Rust is located on Linux or Windows. In any case, the game is identical.

Never said game is not identical. I'm just stating facts, this is statistics which shows where popular servers are actually hosted. Clearly players do not choose by the server OS.

PPlank

Rust wouldn't connect me to my servers. Turns out it was an EAC issue

Oh, yeah. I'm not going to disable EAC on my servers. 😉 I should have said I couldn't connect to any server on my main "daily driver" Windows PC - I was able to connect via my laptop just fine (same Steam account) so I'm not sure what was going on. I raised a ticket with EAC to which they never replied, but like magic an hour later my PC was able to connect again. Maybe EAC had blocked my one PC for some unfathomable reason? I'll never know.
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