Run Team Fortress 2 on your own PC: SteamCMD installs and updates, a SourceMod plugin manager that checks what loaded after every start, mode presets from casual and Mann vs. Machine to 6s, MGE and jump, fast downloads for custom maps, league configs and tournament matches with their logs.tf links, and chat and kills live from the server's log — in the same free app as your other games.
Metamod and SourceMod with a curated catalogue (StAC, TF2 Competitive Fixes, logs.tf, demos.tf, MGE, Dodgeball…) or any GitHub link, installed with what they need. Every change is backed up, every start ends with a check of what loaded and why something didn't, and “Start without plugins” is one click.
Casual, Mann vs. Machine, 6s, Highlander, arena and community modes like MGE, jump, surf and dodgeball: each preset sets its settings in server.cfg, a fitting start map and player count, and offers the plugins it needs.
Custom maps are compressed and served from your PC (or a folder for your own web host), and the server's download address is set for you, so players get a new map in seconds instead of minutes.
Install a league's configs, load one in tournament mode with team names, and get the result with its logs.tf and demos.tf links. A config that expects plugins you don't have says which.
Chat, team chat, kills with weapon and distance, assists, captures and round results, live from the server's log (on a rented server, from its log files over its file access); kills, deaths and assists on player profiles and the leaderboard.
Workshop maps by link, a whole Workshop collection as a map cycle, and map cycles you can change while the server runs. On a rented server with file access, the Plugins page, the cfg editor, map cycles (through mapcyclefile in server.cfg) and mode settings work too; matches, demos and FastDL stay for servers on your PC.
News, moderation posts, a daily summary and the bot's replies. Every screen, and the Discord posts, can be in one of 12 languages; what players read in game stays English.
TF2 speaks Source RCON on its game port. RCON Hub keeps one steady connection per server. Chat, kills and joins arrive live over the server's UDP log (logaddress_add with a secret), sent to the PC's network address, where the server listens; the console log is the fallback.
RCON Hub can ban one person on every server of every game you run, from one page. Here's how that ban reaches Team Fortress 2: Bans go on the server's own list (banid and writeid) by Steam64, and are shared across your TF2 servers. A timed ban is sent to the server again after every restart, and a banned player who joins anyway is kicked.
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 TF2-specific ClanStop global rules yet; your own fair-play warnings use the kill lines' weapons, distances and positions (melee, backstab and flame reach, sniper headshot and fire rates).
Step-by-step fixes for the problems Team Fortress 2 server owners hit most.
No. Players, chat, kills, kicks, bans, maps, modes, FastDL, backups and automation work on a vanilla server. The plugin manager is there when you want SourceMod plugins like StAC or MGE.
Rarely for long: SourceMod updates its own gamedata after most TF2 updates. RCON Hub checks what loaded after every start, says why something didn't, and can start the server without plugins until fixed builds are out.
No. Plugins that give players items they don't own (unusual effects, Australiums, war paints, killstreaks) break Valve's server guidelines and get the server's login token banned, so RCON Hub refuses them.
Yes: the MvM preset sets 32 slots for the robots, a Mann vs. Machine map and lets a wave start with fewer than six players.
Yes. Its tools have been tested on a real Team Fortress 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.