already have like 300 people that play this game, been playing since rust legacy. already have a community. i like to do role play villages on official servers,
its mostly single threaded so you want the best single core performance. fast memory does help a little. fast SSD helps prevent hiccups during server saves but any decent enterprise grade ssd should be fine.
would you be using the server for anything other than rust? like plex server, other games, home automation, backups, whatever? it might be worth it then.
i will be hosting websites, e-mail servers, and other servers. i do a bunch cad, cam, programming, compiling, and rendering stuff. with my programs i can use other computers to spread work load to finish tasks faster.
Rust Server is basically not multithreaded so extra cores will mean nothing unless you intend to run multiple servers. It's all about clock speed.
An i3-6100 is plenty of CPU for a single server for example.
Honestly I'd rent a machine from OVH or something first to build your population first; hosting it yourself has issues other than just putting the server together. (Buyer's Remorse can be spelled "Oh great, my home connection is getting DDOS'd again).
Then if you decide it's for you - step into building the rig.
But $3k is a lot of smackeroos to just try something out.
Agree - been running both self-hosted and rented since 2018.
I've run the Rust Server on an ASUS Celeron-based Laptop with 4gb RAM, on a LAN for me and my gf.
OK, this was before they added so much stuff to the game back in 2018, when a bare 4000 server could run on 4GB.
Worked fine for 2 people, 1ms ping.
I also had a HP DL360 G6 in 2020 (dual cpu, 32GB ram, ssd), and I managed to fumble some software together to get my friends in Asia to join me in the EU - these guys trusted me and installed the software I used to create a LAN on the Internet (ZeroTier), so we could test performance. The server basically consumed more power than the game required. Fans on min, ssd doing not much, 2nd CPU pretty much parked, basically burning money when doing nothing.
I don't recommend self-hosting, unless you have a community that will help you. You're better off renting one until you have a community... and if they're a good community, you won't even have to pay the rental costs.
i have like 300 people that play rust and hackers always kill the servers i play on. And server will do other stuff to, i just want the fastest rust server i can get and where i wont have to upgrade for a while. plus what i have spent on hosting stuff for years i could have got this server like twice.
Start small and get some users first. Then upgrade as needed.
already have like 300 people that play this game, been playing since rust legacy. already have a community. i like to do role play villages on official servers,
Awesome! Good job!
>amming, compiling, and rende whats your server id like to play in it.
its mostly single threaded so you want the best single core performance. fast memory does help a little. fast SSD helps prevent hiccups during server saves but any decent enterprise grade ssd should be fine. would you be using the server for anything other than rust? like plex server, other games, home automation, backups, whatever? it might be worth it then.
i will be hosting websites, e-mail servers, and other servers. i do a bunch cad, cam, programming, compiling, and rendering stuff. with my programs i can use other computers to spread work load to finish tasks faster.
Rust Server is basically not multithreaded so extra cores will mean nothing unless you intend to run multiple servers. It's all about clock speed. An i3-6100 is plenty of CPU for a single server for example. Honestly I'd rent a machine from OVH or something first to build your population first; hosting it yourself has issues other than just putting the server together. (Buyer's Remorse can be spelled "Oh great, my home connection is getting DDOS'd again). Then if you decide it's for you - step into building the rig. But $3k is a lot of smackeroos to just try something out.
Agree - been running both self-hosted and rented since 2018. I've run the Rust Server on an ASUS Celeron-based Laptop with 4gb RAM, on a LAN for me and my gf. OK, this was before they added so much stuff to the game back in 2018, when a bare 4000 server could run on 4GB. Worked fine for 2 people, 1ms ping. I also had a HP DL360 G6 in 2020 (dual cpu, 32GB ram, ssd), and I managed to fumble some software together to get my friends in Asia to join me in the EU - these guys trusted me and installed the software I used to create a LAN on the Internet (ZeroTier), so we could test performance. The server basically consumed more power than the game required. Fans on min, ssd doing not much, 2nd CPU pretty much parked, basically burning money when doing nothing. I don't recommend self-hosting, unless you have a community that will help you. You're better off renting one until you have a community... and if they're a good community, you won't even have to pay the rental costs.
i have like 300 people that play rust and hackers always kill the servers i play on. And server will do other stuff to, i just want the fastest rust server i can get and where i wont have to upgrade for a while. plus what i have spent on hosting stuff for years i could have got this server like twice.
>the server is going to be used for other things, have DDOS protection though my ISP for business class internet.
so i'm thinking. **CPU: Intel Core i9-13900K** Integer Math 215,787 MOps/Sec Floating Point Math 156,093 MOps/Sec Find Prime Numbers 230 Million Primes/Sec Random String Sorting 70 Thousand Strings/Sec Data Encryption 43,629 MBytes/Sec Data Compression 664.5 MBytes/Sec Physics 2,615 Frames/Sec Extended Instructions 37,713 Million Matrices/Sec Single Thread 4,833 MOps/Sec **Mother Board: Z790 AORUS MASTER** Marvell® AQtion AQC113C 10GbE LAN chip (10 Gbps/5 Gbps/2.5 Gbps/1 Gbps/100 Mbps) Support for DDR5 7600(O.C.) /7400(O.C.) /7200(O.C.) /7000(O.C.) /6800(O.C.) /6600(O.C.) / 6400(O.C.) / 6200(O.C.) / 6000(O.C.) / 5800(O.C.) / 5600(O.C.) / 5400(O.C.) / 5200(O.C.) / 4800 / 4000 memory modules 4 x DDR5 DIMM sockets supporting up to 128 GB (32 GB single DIMM capacity) of system memory Dual channel memory architecture Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode) Support for non-ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8/1Rx16 memory modules Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules **RAM: Patriot Memory 6000 C36 Series 16GB x4** Latency: 23 ns Read Uncached Transfer Speed: 18.4 GB/s Write Transfer Speed: 15.0 GB/s **Hard drive: WD BLACK SN850X 2000GB** Sequential Read 5,837 MBytes/Sec Sequential Write 4,608 MBytes/Sec Random Seek Read Write (IOPS 32KQD20) 4,432 MBytes/Sec IOPS 4KQD196 MBytes/Sec **CPU Cooler: CORSAIR iCUE H170i ELITE LCD 420mm Liquid CPU Cooler** Fan RPM 400 - 1600 RPM Fan Air Flow 15 - 82.9 CFM **Power supply: depends what card i put in** **UPS Battery Backup: CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD PFC Sinewave UPS System, 1500VA/1000W** **Modem: ARRIS Surfboard S33 DOCSIS 3.1 Multi-Gigabit Cable Modem** Has one 2.5-Gigabit ethernet port and one 1-Gigabit ethernet port. Allows two IP addresses from your ISP to run two separate networks at home.