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Infrared

Minecraft proxy with domain-based routing and idle hibernation

Game Servers ★ 858 stars Medium setup MIT

Infrared is a Minecraft proxy written in Go that provides domain-based routing to multiple backend servers and can put idle servers to sleep. It helps efficiently host many self-hosted Minecraft servers.

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Key features

  • Domain-based proxy routing
  • Idle server hibernation
  • REST API
  • Lightweight Go binary

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Saves resources on idle servers
  • Flexible routing

Trade-offs

  • Minecraft only
  • Requires configuration

Is Infrared secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Infrared's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Infrared replaces

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