GameServerKings keeps it bare-bones: a configurator and instant deploy on older Ryzen hardware, with no automated wipes and just a 24-hour refund. Physgun covers the fundamentals and then adds the in-house Rust tooling serious admins actually want, on overclocked Ryzen 9 9950X hardware.
One-click plugins, scheduled wipes and DDoS are table stakes. Here's everything GameServerKings leaves out, and the hardware underneath it.
Based on each provider's publicly listed Rust information as of September 2026. A dash means the provider doesn't publish it or we couldn't verify it. Competitor features and pricing change, so check their site for the latest.
GameServerKings hands you a console and a player list. Physgun shows you the server. Watch a raid unfold on the most advanced Rust livemap, teleport to the report, ban the cheater, all from the RGT Player Manager without leaving the browser.
Loading live demo…Every player on the map as they move. Click one for health, team and inventory.
Edit inventories, modify player values, ban, kick and teleport from the RGT Player Manager. No console, no Steam IDs.
Drop an airdrop or call in a heli exactly where you want it. Great for events, even better for testing.
Monument markers, sleeping bags and TCs, so you know where the fights will be before they start.
That's the live demo above. Yours comes with every Rust plan. Built in-house. Only at Physgun.
Oxide and Carbon groups, players and auth levels in one matrix. Changes sync straight to the running server, and you review every change before it applies. No more hand-editing JSON and hoping.
Matrix, Groups, Players, Auth Levels. Oxide and Carbon.
Your whole server disk as a live treemap. Spot the 5 GB of bundles and the 40 old saves at a glance and clear space in seconds, before a wipe fails on a full disk.
Folder and file-type breakdown. Rescans in seconds.
Hook and invoke time per plugin, ranked. See exactly what's eating your ticks and pull the one plugin costing 4.6 ms, instead of disabling everything and guessing.
Runs on top of Physgun's own Rust engine optimizations.
You only need a quick configure-and-deploy on a budget and don't mind older hardware, manual wipes, and a short 24-hour refund window. GameServerKings covers the Rust bare essentials like Oxide install, DDoS protection and instant setup, and not much else.
You're serious about Rust and want tooling no other host has: Rust God Tools (the most advanced Rust livemap with a full player manager), SSH access & VSCode in the panel, a per-function tick profiler, the Live Permission Editor and Physgun engine optimizations, all on overclocked Ryzen 9 9950X hardware with a 3-day money-back guarantee.
Rust isn't a set-and-forget game. A server's population lives and dies on the wipe cycle. Most run a weekly or biweekly map wipe, and the first Thursday of every month is a forced wipe when a Rust update breaks blueprints. Hitting those wipes on schedule, at the right time, is most of what keeps a server alive. Miss one and your map is stale and your player count craters on the exact night people are looking for a fresh server to join.
GameServerKings has no scheduled auto-wipes, which means every cycle is a manual chore: stop the server, clear the map and player data (and blueprint data on a force wipe), update, and restart, and you have to be there to do it. On a Thursday that often falls during a Rust update window, that's a job at an awkward hour, every single time, with real consequences if you're late.
Physgun automates the entire wipe schedule, running map wipes on your cadence and blueprint wipes aligned to forced wipes, so the server resets itself on time whether or not you're awake. Pair that with scheduled restarts and one-click Oxide/Carbon updates and the recurring admin work that GameServerKings leaves on your plate mostly disappears. That, plus current-gen hardware over their older Ryzen and a 3-day money-back window versus their 24 hours, is the practical difference week to week.
GameServerKings does the bare minimum, and not always that, given no automated wipes and older Ryzen hardware. Physgun gives you the fundamentals plus the depth that matters for Rust: the Rust God Tools live map, an in-browser VS Code editor with SSH, per-function tick profiling, and in-house engine optimizations, none of which GameServerKings offers, all on current-gen 9950X hardware. If you want to manage raids in real time and tune your server's performance down to the function, Physgun is the clear pick.
One-click import from GameServerKings. Overclocked Ryzen 9 9950X on every main plan. Code RUST takes 15% off.
Starter
Best for starting a community
then $19.87/mo. Use codeRUSTat checkout
Growing Community
Best for a growing community
then $39.87/mo. Use codeRUSTat checkout
Turbo
Best for busy, high-pop servers
then $59.87/mo. Use codeRUSTat checkout
Development boxes, smaller servers and custom hardware, for when one of these fits better than a main plan.
plugin & mod development
Development Server
The best development environment.
servers on a budget
Micro
Perfect for small servers!
the largest communities
Dedicated Rust Server
Custom bare metal: a whole machine to yourself, configured to your spec, set up with you.
All Physgun servers instantly deploy on the fastest hardware available with dedicated resources.
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