Plugin & backend development
Gameplay mechanics, proxy integrations, anti-abuse, automation and the backend systems behind them. Written for servers that take real traffic.
Minecraft infrastructure since 2016
We build the servers other people can't keep online.
XERA INC. writes open source Minecraft server software and runs hosting for game servers, bots and side projects. All of it started with 8b8t.me, the anarchy server we've run since 2016.
8b8t.me
Online
Survival Minecraft.
9.6TB Map and over 460,000 unique player joins.
Running since2016
Software8b8tCore on Custom Folia Software
OperatorXERA INC.
What we build
Three things, done properly.
Everything we sell is something we already run ourselves at scale.
Plugins
Servers
Server engineering
Tuned Minecraft servers built for large public communities — the same performance work that keeps 8b8t up through the busy hours.
Open source
Open source by default
Our core software is public. You can read it, run it, and fork it before you decide whether to work with us.
Hosting
Game servers, bots and projects — hosted by us.
Managed hosting on our own hardware, with the performance work and custom plugins we built for our own network. Tell us what you need and we'll size it in Discord.
01
Minecraft server hosting
Vanilla, Paper, Folia or modded, with our own performance tweaks and plugins.
02Discord bot hosting
Always-on hosting for your bot, with restarts and logs handled for you.
03Matrix bot hosting
Run Matrix bots and bridges without keeping a machine at home awake.
04Node.js project hosting
Deploy APIs, dashboards and workers — anything that runs on Node.
05Terraria server hosting
Dedicated Terraria worlds that stay up between sessions.
06tModLoader server hosting
Modded Terraria with your mod list installed and kept in sync.
07Rust server hosting
Rust servers with the headroom for a full wipe-day population.
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And more…
Running something we haven't listed? Ask — we host most things that run on Linux.
Hosting locations
2 regions
YEG
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada — best latency across western Canada and the US West and Midwest.
Online
MIA
Miami, Florida
United States — best latency for the US East Coast, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Online
These are the two regions your server actually runs in. XERA Shield filters traffic from a separate network of seven edge locations — see below.
XERA Shield
Advanced Minecraft DDoS protection.
An enterprise-grade edge protection platform engineered specifically for Minecraft networks — advanced DDoS filtering, intelligent traffic engineering and low-latency load balancing, across seven edge locations worldwide and still expanding.
Filtering
Advanced DDoS filtering
Attack traffic is dropped at the edge before it ever reaches your machine, using protocol-aware filtering built for Minecraft rather than bolted onto it.
Routing
Intelligent traffic engineering
Player traffic takes the shortest healthy path to your backend, and reroutes around trouble instead of sitting in it.
Balancing
Low-latency load balancing
Spread a network across multiple backends without paying for it in ping. Built for proxies and multi-node setups.
Network
Seven edges, still growing
Seven filtering locations worldwide, with more being added — players connect to the nearest edge, not straight to your origin.
Built for anarchy-scale traffic
Engineered for Minecraft, not adapted to it.
Generic scrubbing providers don't understand the Minecraft handshake. XERA Shield does — because it was written to keep our own network reachable through the kind of traffic that takes other servers offline.
ProtectionMinecraft-aware edge
BalancingMulti-backend
Edge7 locations, expanding
Status Online
shield.xera.ca
Flagship network
The company behind 8b8t.me
8b8t is where all of this came from. An anarchy server started in 2016, still open to anyone, and still the hardest test our software gets. Everything we've learned keeping it online is what we sell to everyone else.
Established — 2016, same team ever since
Rules — freedom-first; players decide how it goes
Scale — infrastructure built for a large, permanent world
Software — 8b8tCore, written by us, published publicly
Staff
Who you'll actually talk to.
CEO & founder
Nate Legault
Founder, XERA INC. & 8b8t
Started 8b8t in 2016 and founded XERA around it. Sets the technical direction and handles partnerships and long-term planning.
[email protected]
Director
Cubebuilder
8b8t director & systems administrator
Runs the machines: server infrastructure, deployments, network reliability and backend operations across everything XERA hosts.
[email protected]
Support
SrGokuto
Support specialist
First response for players and hosting customers. If you open a ticket in Discord, this is usually who reads it.
[email protected]
Our work
8b8tCore
The Folia core plugin that runs 8b8t — written in Kotlin, built for a permanent world at scale, and public so you can see exactly how we handle the hard parts before you hire us.
$ git clone https://github.com/
XeraPlugins/8b8tCoreKT.git
XeraPlugins/8b8tCoreKT.git
Kotlin · Folia · open source
Contact
Start in Discord. It's faster.
Hosting quotes, plugin work, DDoS protection, or a question about 8b8t — our Discord is where we answer quickest. Prefer email? Write to us and we'll get back to you.