Is there an official guidance on which we should use? Any advantage to using the plugin vs rcon via the tebex website?
Plugin or rcon
Hey, absolutely! We always recommend using the plugin over direct RCON for reliability, but everyone's specific use case is different.
When using direct RCON we send commands straight to the server to execute them. There's some limitations here - things like online/offline checking and checking for inventory space can't happen. Depending on the command, we also may not be able to confirm whether the command actually succeeded. There is also an hour delay between re-sending failed commands.
When using the plugin, we can use the actual in-game resources provided by uMod and Rust to check inventory space, confirm players have spawned and are even able to receive items. Commands are run every 2 minutes, so it allows delivery to be faster and much more reliable.
We have a dedicated section on our Creator Docs for all of our integration types as well. Here's a link to our docs on the RCON connection specifically: https://docs.tebex.io/creators/tebex-control-panel/game-servers/rcon
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Hey, absolutely! We always recommend using the plugin over direct RCON for reliability, but everyone's specific use case is different.
When using direct RCON we send commands straight to the server to execute them. There's some limitations here - things like online/offline checking and checking for inventory space can't happen. Depending on the command, we also may not be able to confirm whether the command actually succeeded. There is also an hour delay between re-sending failed commands.
When using the plugin, we can use the actual in-game resources provided by uMod and Rust to check inventory space, confirm players have spawned and are even able to receive items. Commands are run every 2 minutes, so it allows delivery to be faster and much more reliable.
We have a dedicated section on our Creator Docs for all of our integration types as well. Here's a link to our docs on the RCON connection specifically: https://docs.tebex.io/creators/tebex-control-panel/game-servers/rcon
Awesome - thanks for the answer, very helpful!