TruxDeadnitro

Well I'm hosting everyting by my self, 
Location 
At my home XD 
CPU Priority
i5 9600k overclock to 5.0 GHZ 
server ram 
32GB 3200MHZ
Server storage 
2x nas HDD drive of 4TB 
OS 
Windows server 2019

Servers that I'm hosting currently is 
2x rust servers, 
1 teamspeak server, 
and 1 Fivem server 

and with all of this running the cpu just used 30% which is nothing, 
so as you can see somethimes it better to hosting servers by your self then host it by providers, 

Problem is can your bandwith handle a decent amount of players?
Did you spend 4 digits on DDOS protection?
What about powercuts? you have back UPS?
How long until the i5 gives up? Do you have it in a stable environment?

For me it just doesn't work out cost-wise to setup something at home that can actually compete with a decent data center.

deicide77

Problem is can your bandwith handle a decent amount of players?
Did you spend 4 digits on DDOS protection?
What about powercuts? you have back UPS?
How long until the i5 gives up? Do you have it in a stable environment?

For me it just doesn't work out cost-wise to setup something at home that can actually compete with a decent data center.

What is this spending $1000+ on ddos protection coming from?

definitely Ponygaming.com hosting there 4 servers and pretty awesome, even support is very fast

Unless you have the sponsorship or own money to pay for dedicated or just have unused PC/Server at home which you can turn into a Rust Server I think that paying for dedicated is expensive if you start and have no clue what will happen... You can have 100 players next day and just know that your money is not wasted even without having profit. If you have whole month 2 players and pay 100$ for dedicated it's overkill (at least for me).

From more affordable hosts I can recommend IcedHost, GTXGaming and GameServerKings (there's not a perfect host but these 3 are my favorites). Used them a lot while making Rust Servers and their control panels are good and user friendly* and the hardware is "somehow fine for beginning" but you might think to upgrade with dedicated or something else if your sevrer have a lot of players later on.

I do not recommend Shockbyte (maybe it's personal vision) but their control panel is awful. I hate how you add/update oxide with their panel. If not mistaked first you need to enable automatic updates and then launch the sevrer to apply the lates vanilla server update, and ofc wait the whole loading process (not sure if you can close it while loading just after updating at the beginning). Then when stoped manually upload/install oxide (not a big deal but makes no sense to do it manually if you have a control panel anyways). Then disable auto updates (or next startup will update again and overwrite oxide) then launch the server again. Not sure why a lot of users go with it. Maybe because their prices are cheaper... Idk, for me it's no-no.

That said, I’m still on the lookout for a host with better plugin/mod support out of the box. Anyone here tried setting up on a VPS like OVH or Hetzner? Curious how much extra work it is compared to managed hosts.

I used to run my Rust server on a cheap host, and it was a nightmare—constant lag spikes and random downtime. Switched to a more reputable provider and never looked back. By the way, if you’re looking to make your server experience even better, I sometimes use https://skinswap.com/trade-rust-skins to swap out duplicate skins for ones I actually like. Keeps the game interesting without hitting the wallet too hard.

Not a good time to play around with skins now that FP has introduced the new tos. 

I always had the idea of players buyig the approved skins from the game but adding more unique non-approved skins from the high-quality category but missing the love they need, (not the ugly skins made in paint for 5min in your lunch time) but what if Facepunch approves the non approved skins one day? What if something else happens? The new ToS is so niche and the line is thin, so I removed all skins on my server and only left the SkinSet where you can save it as preset if you first reskin your items through the repair bench. But what if you ask someone on Steam to join and skin your facemask to Big Grin and you then save it in the set? I might completely remove the skinbox soon, idk.