# Can't Afford Socket Server

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-afford-socket-server/203272>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 9, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-afford-socket-server/203272 "2006-10-09T18:33:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-afford-socket-server/203272/1 "2006-10-09T18:33:29Z")

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If you cannot afford a socket server and want to support a massive amount of people chatting and playing multiplayer games on Flash, what would you do? Should I use PHP/MySQL? Would that put too much strain on it and make it slow?