Web and Infrastructure

The community website, the containerised Minecraft server, and the data path that connects a live game server to the public site.

Not everything in the organization runs inside Minecraft.

The website

dansplugins.com is the community's public face: a Next.js application listing the plugins, hosting guides, and — since the addition of accounts — letting players claim a profile.

The server

DPC Minecraft Server is an infrastructure-as-code Spigot server. It pins specific plugin JARs into a Docker image, which makes it the closest thing the organization has to an integration environment: if a change breaks the interaction between two plugins, this is where it shows up.

The connection between them

DPC API Faction Sync is the bridge. A running Medieval Factions server can be configured to POST its faction roster to the website's API on an interval, which is how live in-game data reaches a public web page.

That path is the most operationally dangerous code in the organization, because a bad request does not corrupt one server's data — it corrupts the shared registry. The note explains the guards that exist because of it.

Distribution

Dan's Plugin Manager closes the loop for server operators, pulling published plugin releases onto a running server without a manual download.