Thanks to the advent of Minecraft plugins, server admins can modify gameplay features by installing various different plugins to the server.

Minecraft plugins are a great way to add more fun things to do in any player's next SMP server. SMP servers stand for survival multiplayer, meaning a multiplayer server based around survival ...

Since the server is single-threaded, having more than 100 players on a single server can slow it to a crawl. Some mods try to optimize and speed up the existing server but [Jackson] wanted more.