The numbers side by side
| What | EUGameHost | GTX Gaming |
|---|---|---|
| Entry Rust plan at 50 slots Monthly billing |
£7.50/mo (Standard Starter) £15.00/mo on Extreme |
£16.89/mo (Survivor) |
| RAM at that price | 16 GB DDR4 16 GB DDR5 on Extreme |
12 GB |
| CPU named | Intel Xeon, 3.8GHz+ (Standard) Ryzen 9 7950X, dedicated cores (Extreme) |
Not named on the Rust plans; "High CPU Priority" on the 160-slot plan |
| Locations | 2: London (UK), Dallas (US) | 18, including London, Frankfurt, Dallas, Sydney and Tokyo; some carry a surcharge |
| Refund window | 48 hours on new orders | 24 hours |
| Contract and setup fee | None, none | None, none |
| Plugin install | One-click Oxide/uMod or Carbon, plus a uMod.org plugin browser | Mod Manager installs Oxide or Carbon in one click; nothing preinstalled; 1,500+ uMod plugins |
| Custom maps | Yes: upload a .map or paste its URL from the panel | Yes: host the .map publicly and set server.levelurl |
| Trustpilot Both read 15 Oct 2026 |
4.5 / 5 from 611 reviews | 1,427 reviews; Trustpilot shows no score ("rating unavailable due to a breach of our guidelines") |
Where GTX Gaming is ahead
- Eighteen locations against our two. If most of your players are in Australia, Asia or the US west coast, GTX can put the server nearer to them than we can.
- More than twice our review count, and a longer buying page with more detail on each plan.
- Slot counts from 50 to 1,000 on a custom plan, where our plans stop at 150 and larger communities move to a dedicated server.
The trade-off
If your community is in the UK, Europe or central North America, the location count does not help you and the price does: £7.50 against £16.89 for 50 slots, with 16 GB of RAM instead of 12, a named CPU and a 48-hour window instead of 24 to decide. If your players are spread across continents, GTX's eighteen locations are a real advantage and we say so. GTX's Trustpilot profile currently shows no score, which Trustpilot attributes to a guidelines breach; read the reviews themselves rather than the headline.
Both hosts install Oxide/uMod or Carbon from the panel, both run NVMe storage and both include DDoS protection, so the choice comes down to the rows above: what you pay at 50 slots, how much RAM that buys, which CPU it runs on, where it runs and how long you have to change your mind. Our Rust server hosting page lists every plan, and the Rust server guide covers the admin side whichever host you pick.