Minecraft Server Administration Skill

Server Software Comparison

Software	Base	Use Case
Paper	Spigot	Recommended for most servers; best performance + plugin compatibility
Purpur	Paper	Additional gameplay config options
Velocity	Proxy	Multi-server network proxy (modern replacement for BungeeCord)
Folia	Paper	Region-threaded; for very high player-count servers
Fabric / NeoForge	Vanilla	Mod servers (no Bukkit plugin support)

Use when: the task is server operations, deployment, performance tuning, networking/proxy setup, backups, or security hardening.
Do not use when: the task is writing plugin/mod/gameplay code (minecraft-plugin-dev, minecraft-modding, minecraft-multiloader).
Do not use when: the task is authoring datapack/resource-pack content (minecraft-datapack, minecraft-resource-pack).