Run Counter-Strike 2 on your own PC: SteamCMD installs and updates, Metamod and CounterStrikeSharp plugins that are checked after every CS2 update, MatchZy matches with their demos, bans that hold even when the app is closed, and chat and kills live from the server's log — in the same free app as your other games.
logaddress_add_httpMetamod and CounterStrikeSharp with a curated catalogue and its dependencies. A release that says it doesn't support your CS2 build is held back, gameinfo.gi is repaired before every start, every start ends with a check of which plugins loaded and why one didn't, and “Start without plugins” is one click.
CS2's own ban list keeps nothing. RCON Hub kicks a banned player on every join, and its own RCON Hub Bans plugin keeps them out with the app closed. CS2's team-kill kicks go into the player's history and can become a ban for a set time.
Set up teams, players and maps, load the match, force-start, pause, restore a round or end it. The live score and results come from MatchZy's own feed, and the match's GOTV demo lands in the demo library.
Chat, team chat, kills with weapon, headshot and distance, joins and map changes, live from the server's log (on a rented server, from its log files over its file access); kills, deaths and headshots on player profiles and the leaderboard.
Workshop maps and collections, the map rotation, game mode presets, a server.cfg editor and bot presets.
Your bans are copied into CS2-SimpleAdmin, which gets the setting it needs to start on an empty server, and an unban it didn't take is reported.
Give a rented server its file access (the host panel's files, FTP/FTPS or SFTP) and the Plugins page, RCON Hub Bans, the cfg editor, map groups and mode settings work there too: RCON Hub keeps a copy of the server's files, changes it and sends back only what changed. Matches, demos and SimpleAdmin's ban sync stay for servers on your PC.
News, a chat bridge and a bot with /status, /players and /map. Every screen, and the Discord posts, can be in one of 12 languages; what players read in game stays English.
CS2 speaks Source RCON on its game port. RCON Hub keeps one connection per server and handles CS2's quirks: it answers on the PC's network address rather than 127.0.0.1, and it cuts status short after a Workshop map, so the player list then comes from status_json. Chat, kills and joins arrive live over logaddress_add_http, registered again after every start and map change.
RCON Hub can ban one person on every server of every game you run, from one page. Here's how that ban reaches Counter-Strike 2: CS2's own ban list (banid) keeps nothing, so a ban kicks the player and RCON Hub kicks them again whenever they join. With RCON Hub Bans, a small CounterStrikeSharp plugin that comes with the app, the server itself keeps banned players out while the app is closed. Bans are by Steam64 and shared across your CS2 servers.
On servers where you turn it on, a clear cheat confirmed by ClanStop keeps a player off every server that enforces global bans. A match kicks the player from that server right away; only ClanStop can make a ban global, after re-checking the evidence. How global bans work. How to set it up, step by step (English guide).
There are no CS2-specific ClanStop global rules yet; your own fair-play warnings use the kill lines' weapons, distances and positions.
Step-by-step fixes for the problems Counter-Strike 2 server owners hit most.
CS2 accepts banid in every id form and stores nothing. RCON Hub keeps the ban list itself: it kicks a banned player whenever they join, and its RCON Hub Bans plugin (CounterStrikeSharp) does the same with the app closed.
No. Players, chat, kills, kicks, bans, maps, backups and automation work on a vanilla server. The plugin manager is there when you want Metamod and CounterStrikeSharp plugins, MatchZy matches or the ban plugin.
It can: CS2 updates often break Metamod and CounterStrikeSharp. RCON Hub holds back a plugin release that says it doesn't support your CS2 build, repairs gameinfo.gi, checks what loaded after every start, and can start the server without plugins until fixed builds are out.
No. Skin, knife, glove and agent changers give players items they don't own, which breaks Valve's server guidelines and gets the server's login token banned, so RCON Hub refuses them.
Yes. Its tools have been tested on a real Counter-Strike 2 server. Adding a rented server (Nitrado, a Pterodactyl panel or FTP) is still marked Preview until it has been fully tried on a real host. RCON Hub is beta software, so back up before big changes.
Ask on ClanStop's Discord. Server owners and the RCON Hub team answer setup questions, bug reports and game requests there. The link is in the menu and at the bottom of every page.
Ask on ClanStop's Discord: support, ideas, game requests and ban appeals.
Free for Windows 10 and 11, published by ClanStop. Beta software — back up your server's settings and world before changing anything.