GAME SERVER
Rust
ActionAdventureIndieMassively Multiplayer≤100 playersmoddablenative Linuxsingle-thread
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Host it here
≈ $17/mo
playing ~12 h/week on the metered plan, billed only while the server is actually up. Always-on is $59.98–$89.97/mo · about $14.99 each split between 4 players, 2–3 cores dedicated, never shared.
RAM scales with world size + wipe-age entity count, not just players; Carbon/Oxide plugins.
Get the game
You buy Rust once from Steam. It is $39.99 there, a one-off purchase. NecroHost rents you the server it runs on, which is the monthly figure above.