# Basic Set up of Flash Media Server

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 25, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-set-up-of-flash-media-server/242376 "2007-10-25T09:33:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![jasonoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@jasonoda](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jasonoda)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-set-up-of-flash-media-server/242376/1 "2007-10-25T09:33:18Z")

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Can someone please explain to me the basic way Flash Media Server 2 works. I want to make a online multiplayer game, but just can’t figure out how all of these things work together.

Do just need set up a bunch of files with FMS and upload them to my website and it all runs fine with nothing else?

or do I have FMS constantly running on my computer at home and people on the online games are connecting to FMS on my computer through the swfs on my website?

or do I somehow upload some FMS thing that is always running on my website somehow.

or do I have to buy a special web hosting service, somehow install something that lets it know that I’m trying to use FMS and have all of the files on that web site.

or something else. I just don’t understand the basic set up.

Jason