Introduction to Preventatives
Minecraft is an open game by nature and as great as that is, it doesn't always work in every servers favour and sometimes they need to make changes in order to restrict certain aspects of gameplay for any number of multiple reasons.
The most common types of plugins you'll see in this category are:
Anti-Cheat
Anti-Lag
Anti-Swear
Anti-Xray
Anti-Mechanic (where mechanic is a vanilla function server owners don't want)
We will attempt to cover multiple examples of each where possible.