Can anything be done about the lag?

[ShadowBerryKing]

If vanilla game play upsets you to the point you recommend we shut down the server, then perhaps this is not the place for you.

Vanilla Minecraft is a choice and it is one you are not forced to make. There are many non-vanilla servers with all the glory and speed you are after.

Our server specifications are strong enough to do what we have plus more. Unfortunately Mojang have patched their code year after year and performance has deteriorated because of this.  Along with this issue more and more is being added to the core of the game with each release. So performance again is reduced.

The minecraft.jar we use to be classed as vanilla does not use multithreading and only uses a single core of the server CPU.  When spigot, fabric etc are used this allows the use of multiple cores and each plugin shares the load.

With this in mind vanilla is what it is and it is not for everyone. There are die hard vanilla players here who are beginning to feel the strain and it will get worse. Vanilla as a whole is on borrowed time and will eventually be unplayable unless Mojang do some major changes.

Over time a new server seems to settle as player count drops and people stop exploring and loading new chunks.

Having said that, you are always welcome to player here. But saying we should set the player count to zero is a fairly low blow to the server and the staff who put a lot of time into keeping this server running asking nothing in return.

Honestly, I am fine with the lag I've been working mostly within my player perimeter and have noticed everything is slowly but surely heading back to the way it was last server. 

Just a question, is it possible to have the server CPU switched out with a super strong single core processor? 

Regardless I'm completely fine with how it is now, if anything the lag brings us closer to friendship and communication. Think of people that can talk about sports like it's nothing, same thing different genre.

But yeah, I still want to play as long as I can (forever, since I'm going to invent immortality).