Pine Hosting covers the standard Rust feature set: one-click Oxide and Carbon, scheduled wipes and DDoS protection. Physgun starts from that same baseline and adds the Rust-native admin layer it builds in-house: a live map and player manager, per-function tick profiling, VS Code with SSH in the panel, and engine optimizations, all on overclocked Ryzen 9 9950X hardware. If Rust is the game you care about most, that's the difference.
One-click plugins, scheduled wipes and DDoS are table stakes. Here's everything Pine Hosting 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.
Pine Hosting 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.
The standard Rust toolkit is enough for your server: one-click Oxide/Carbon, scheduled wipes and DDoS protection. Pine Hosting covers that ground, and if you don't need live map administration, tick-level profiling or shell access, you won't miss them. Just know it isn't the cheaper option: Physgun's Micro plan comes in under Pine's entry price.
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.
On paper the two overlap more than they differ. One-click Oxide and Carbon, scheduled wipes, DDoS protection: both hosts do those, and for plenty of servers that genuinely is the whole job. The gap is narrower than most comparison pages pretend, and it opens in specific moments rather than across the board.
Force-wipe Thursday is the clearest one. Population spikes, a Rust update has just broken half your plugin list, and server FPS is the difference between a full server on Friday and an empty one. Physgun's per-function tick profiler shows which plugin or function is actually eating the frame budget, so you fix the cause instead of pulling plugins until it stops. Rust God Tools puts a live map and player manager in the browser, so you can watch a raid play out and act on it while it's happening. And VS Code with SSH in the panel means a broken config is an edit, not a re-upload. All three are built in-house, and they exist for exactly that night. The gap between Pine's entry price and Physgun's 9950X Starter is about five dollars a month, and Physgun's Micro plan comes in under Pine entirely.
Migration is rarely the blocker people expect. Physgun has a one-click importer that moves your Rust server from Pine Hosting to Physgun in just a few clicks, pulling your map, config and plugins across for you. Because Physgun runs the same modding frameworks, your Oxide/uMod and Carbon plugins, their config files, and your server.cfg all carry over directly, and the in-panel VS Code + SSH editor gives you full file access to fine-tune anything afterward. The practical advice: import during a wipe so you're starting a fresh map anyway, and the team can walk through it with you beforehand so your community never sees downtime.
Both hosts cover the Rust essentials: one-click Oxide and Carbon, scheduled wipes and DDoS protection. Pine Hosting's $14.99 sits between Physgun's $11.87 Micro and the $19.87 9950X Starter. Physgun is the deeper panel: the Rust God Tools live map, VS Code with SSH, per-function tick profiling, a one-click Oxide/Carbon permissions manager, and in-house engine optimizations, all on overclocked Ryzen 9 9950X hardware with a 3-day money-back guarantee. For about five dollars a month, that's the trade, and if you're running Rust as a community rather than a side project it's an easy one.
One-click import from Pine Hosting. 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
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