While originally popularized by Source Engine games (like Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2), the Minecraft community adopted RCON early on. Bukkit, Spigot, and Paper servers all have native or plugin-based RCON support. Velocity, being a proxy, requires a specific implementation to handle this protocol.
In testing, Velocity RCON handles ~200-300 commands per second on modest hardware before latency spikes occur, which is far above typical administrative needs. velocity rcon
Velocity is a high-performance, next-generation Minecraft proxy developed by the PaperMC team . While it is designed to be more secure and faster than its predecessors like BungeeCord and Waterfall, it does not include native support for the protocol. While originally popularized by Source Engine games (like