DedicatedMC
Comparison
Velocity vs BungeeCord: which proxy should you use?
If you are standing up a Minecraft network in 2026 and wondering which proxy to put in front of it, the short answer is
If you are standing up a Minecraft network in 2026 and wondering which proxy to put in front of it, the short answer is
A walk through the Minecraft server fork family, from Vanilla to Paper and Purpur, what each one adds over the last, and a plain pick this if for each.
Purpur is Paper with a far bigger settings file. What it adds, where performance really comes from on a dedicated box, and which to pick.
How BlueMap and Dynmap differ, what a live web map costs your server, how setup looks at a high level, and when a map is actually worth running.
What a mod loader does and where Forge, Fabric and NeoForge each fit, plus the honest answer to which is fastest: whichever your pack is built for.