5 Tips To Grow Your Rust Server!

Today we'll go over some key tips to consider regarding growing your gaming community server so it has the best potential at success as possible! This article specifically features Rust, however can benefit into any game you plan to host a server within.

Community Involvement

This one will likely be easy for your if you're already heavily involved within your community, but being very active and having an active team to help you will go a long way with your communities success! The faster that your community members see you respond, especially positively, the higher chance you'll have at them sticking around! Additional hosting giveaways, events and more usually helps drive community traffic in a good way!

Stand out!

Chances are if you're reading this article you're trying to get players to join and stick around on your server. There's no one-single answer or solution asides from the grind and hustle that follows when running servers. However, standing out and being different in a good way will likely help your chances of organically getting attention without much outreach as players will tell their friends about your unique features that nobody else has.

Cater to an Audience

This statement is very vague but for good reason. When you're wanting to run a server you'll likely gravitate towards installing dozens of fun mods and turning the game into something it's not. Be mindful of doing this because the more modded you turn your player's experience into the more of a niche you begin catering to and will limit your potential. It's always a safe bet to pay attention to what players desires are in large quantities and catering to that.

Server Reliability

Starting off hosting a server can quickly become a money pit at which may not result in returns. Nobody is promised they'll be able to retire hosting game servers. But what is a certainty is you will be heavily impacted if you're server has issues. These issues can range from lag spikes across all players, up to entire machine crashes which requires restarts or even getting ddos'd and taken offline for durations.

Be sure to have the best server provider available which to no surprise is Tempest Hosting. We offer many different plans regarding affordable hosting, all the way up to enterprise level machines for when you're ready to take the next step!

For a first step we recommend you check out our game servers to get your first experience on the best network possible with us and of course you can eventually upgrade to a dedicated machine whenever you outgrow the hardware of a game server!

Take Risks

To elaborate, we mean try new things. Explore with learning how to develop with custom mods. Learning programming languages is an invaluable asset to acquire when it comes to managing anything online in today's world and will give you a leg up on competition the more knowledge and skills you have to evolve your community on your own!

In addition to learning a skill, you can also take risks elsewhere such as trying new features to see what works and what doesn't. Trial and error will be your best friend and enemy in one.

Conclusion

We hope to see you succeed with whatever game you plan to begin venturing in and we hope that some of these tips have given you some insight on possibly running your organization a little more strategically to increase success! We would love to be a part of your success story and allowing us to host your game server! View more info at our website below!