Only players who come through your proxy can join your backend servers. Anyone who connects to a backend server directly - bypassing BungeeCord or Velocity - is kicked before they get in.

ServerSwitchLite is the free, lightweight version of ServerSwitch: just the proxy-join protection, no extra modules, no license key, no limits. A simple alternative to OnlyProxyJoin that works with player names and a shared database instead of IP lists.

Why

Backend servers behind a proxy run in offline mode. If their port is reachable, anyone can join them directly with any name - including your staff's. ServerSwitchLite closes that hole, even when you cannot firewall the ports.

How it works

1. Your proxy sends a player to a server. ServerSwitchLite on the proxy writes a short-lived ticket (player + server) into MySQL.
2. The backend server checks for that ticket when the player logs in. Ticket found: the player joins and the ticket is used up. No ticket: the player is kicked and staff is notified.
3. Tickets nobody used expire after a few seconds.

The check runs off the main thread, so a slow database never lags your server. If the database is unreachable, nobody gets in unchecked.

Features

• One jar for everything: Spigot, Paper and Purpur 1.8 – 26.3, BungeeCord/Waterfall and Velocity
• Bypass IPs, and a switch to turn the check off for maintenance
• Staff notification on direct join attempts (serverswitch.notify)
• Keep, customise or disable join/leave messages
• reload and status commands on every platform
• Optional auto-update from Modrinth
• Same database table as ServerSwitch Pro - upgrade any time

Requirements

• MySQL or MariaDB, reachable from the proxy and from every backend server
• ServerSwitchLite on the proxy and on every backend server
• Velocity only: JSMySQLFix - Velocity ships no MySQL driver
• Java 8 or newer

Setup

1. Put the jar on your proxy and on every backend server (on Velocity also JSMySQLFix).
2. Start once, then enter the same database in each config: config.yml (backend), bungeeconfig.yml (BungeeCord) or velocityconfig.yml (Velocity).
3. On each backend server set server.servername to the name of that server in your proxy config (servers: in BungeeCord, [servers] in velocity.toml).
4. Restart everything.

Commands and permissions

• /serverswitch reload|status (alias /ss) - backend server
• /ssb reload|status - BungeeCord
• /ssv reload|status - Velocity
• serverswitch.admin - use the commands (default: op)
• serverswitch.notify - get told about direct join attempts (default: op)

Updates

• Update check (on by default): on startup the plugin asks Modrinth (api.modrinth.com) whether a newer release exists and writes a notice to the console. Nothing is downloaded. Only the plugin version is sent. Turn it off with settings.update-check: false.
• Manual update: /serverswitchlite update (proxies: /ssb update, /ssv update) shows the new version, file name, size and when it will be installed. Only /serverswitchlite update confirm downloads exactly that file from Modrinth and checks it against Modrinth's SHA-512 checksum.
• Automatic updates (off by default): new releases are downloaded and installed automatically only if you set settings.auto-update: true yourself.

Need more?

ServerSwitch adds rate limiting, cooldowns, statistics, audit logs, webhooks, smart routing, maintenance mode and much more.

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