How to Provision and Automate a Dedicated Rust Server on Ubuntu 🐧🎮

If you've ever tried running a Rust server on an underpowered VPS, you know the pain of entity desync and out-of-memory crashes. Rust is a beast—it simulates physics, AI, and building decay simultaneously. A fresh 3km map eats ~2GB of RAM, and after a few days of active raiding, you're easily pushing 12GB. Here is a technical overview of how we provision bare-metal boxes at Fit Servers to run Rust perfectly. The Bare-Metal Hardware Rust's main thread is heavily single-threaded. You need high clock speeds. We recommend: CPU: Ryzen 5800X3D or i9-11900K RAM: 24–32 GB (essential for 100+ players) Storage: NVMe SSDs (critical for fast world saving without stuttering) OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or 24.04 LTS Oxide Plugins & uMod Vanilla Rust is great, but community servers thrive on plugins. By pulling the latest Linux build of Oxide (Oxide-Rust_Linux.zip), you can drop .cs files directly into oxide/plugins/ to hot-load modifications like BetterChat or GatherManager without restarting the daemon. A