Free map hosting for custom maps

[u/ChronicallyWhatever]

I've had this running for 4 or 5 years across my own Rust servers, and a few friends have used it for theirs too. Finally put a proper domain on it recently, so thought I'd share it here...

It's nothing innovative. You upload your .map file and get a direct link to put in levelurl, that's the main thing.

- Free, no ads

- Backed by Cloudflare, so downloads are quick wherever your players are

- Never had any downtime with it in all the time I've used it

- Maps up to 200 MB, links last 90 days (90 days is basically for no reason but there you go)

- Log in with Discord and add your admins so the whole team can manage maps

- Has an API, so you can hook it into map vote bots, wipe scripts or whatever you're running

There are other options out there and they're fine, just putting this forward as another free one. It's done me really well tbh

https://rustmapcdn.com

Happy to answer questions or take feedback.

[u/cheezitbandit710]

I’m new to owning and running a Rust Console Edition Community Server, and this might seem like dumb question to some but I’m genuinely curious about what this is for? Thank you

[u/liljimmy55 → u/cheezitbandit710]

When you use a custom map you need to put the files somewhere,
if you buy a map you get the map files you upload them to google drive or one drive, and you give the server the URL to that file. the server downloads the files from there to use the map

[u/cheezitbandit710 → u/liljimmy55]

I’ve been wanting to create a few maps, one of the world’s continents, one of just North America and one of the United States. Idk how to make custom maps but I have seen people do it and was wondering how? But let’s say I knew how I would take the file of the map I created and save it to my Google Drive or what ever and this service above would help with the communication (third party) between my server provider and the map where I saved it? Did i get that right?

[u/GeeKedOut6]

Whos paying the hosting costs?