diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6a9c02c..1c4b8b9 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
     "typescript": "^5.3.3"
   },
   "dependencies": {
+    "sb-stream-promise": "^2.0.0",
     "strip-json-comments": "^5.0.1",
     "zod": "^3.22.4"
   }
diff --git a/src/config.ts b/src/config.ts
index c4ad47a..cba69e7 100644
--- a/src/config.ts
+++ b/src/config.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ const configSchemaClient = z.object({
 })
 
 export async function loadConfig<T extends Runtime.Client | Runtime.Server>(
-  runtime: Runtime
+  runtime: T
 ): Promise<
   T extends Runtime.Server ? z.infer<typeof configSchemaServer> : z.infer<typeof configSchemaClient>
 > {
@@ -92,3 +92,11 @@ export async function loadConfig<T extends Runtime.Client | Runtime.Server>(
     ? z.infer<typeof configSchemaServer>
     : z.infer<typeof configSchemaClient>
 }
+
+export function rewriteArgsInServer(
+  args: string[],
+  config: z.infer<typeof configSchemaServer>
+): string[] {
+  // TODO: Do paths rewriting
+  return args.slice()
+}
diff --git a/src/constants.ts b/src/constants.ts
index 0005ee4..376594a 100644
--- a/src/constants.ts
+++ b/src/constants.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 import os from 'node:os'
 import path from 'node:path'
 
+export const SERVER_MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE_BYTES = 102400 // 100kb
+export const SERVER_CLUSTER_RESTART_DELAY_MS = 5000
+
 export enum Runtime {
   Server = 'server',
   Client = 'client',
diff --git a/src/server.ts b/src/server.ts
index cd56887..c956366 100644
--- a/src/server.ts
+++ b/src/server.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
-import { loadConfig } from './config.js'
-import { CONFIG_FILE_SEARCH_PATHS_SERVER, Runtime } from './constants.js'
+import childProcess from 'node:child_process'
+import cluster from 'node:cluster'
+import http from 'node:http'
+import os from 'node:os'
+
+import streamToPromise from 'sb-stream-promise'
+
+import { loadConfig, rewriteArgsInServer } from './config.js'
+import {
+  CONFIG_FILE_SEARCH_PATHS_SERVER,
+  Runtime,
+  SERVER_CLUSTER_RESTART_DELAY_MS,
+  SERVER_MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE_BYTES,
+} from './constants.js'
+import createLogger from './logger.js'
 
 async function main() {
   if (process.argv.includes('--debug-print-search-paths')) {
@@ -13,6 +26,112 @@ async function main() {
     console.log(config)
     process.exit(1)
   }
+
+  const logger = createLogger(config.log)
+
+  if (cluster.isPrimary) {
+    const numForks = os.availableParallelism()
+    for (let i = 0; i < numForks; i += 1) {
+      cluster.fork()
+    }
+
+    cluster.on('exit', (worker, code, signal) => {
+      logger.log(
+        `Worker process died pid=${worker.process.pid} code=${code} signal=${signal} -- respawning`
+      )
+      setTimeout(cluster.fork.bind(cluster), SERVER_CLUSTER_RESTART_DELAY_MS)
+    })
+
+    logger.log(
+      `Server started with ${numForks} workers at ${config.listenAddress}:${config.listenPort}`
+    )
+
+    return
+  }
+
+  const activeRequests = new Map<http.ServerResponse, null | childProcess.ChildProcess>()
+  http
+    .createServer((req, res) => {
+      if (req.headers.authorization !== `Bearer ${config.authSecret}`) {
+        res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')
+        res.writeHead(401)
+        res.end(JSON.stringify({ error: 'Unauthorized' }))
+        logger.error('Rejected request: Unauthorized')
+        return
+      }
+      if (req.method !== 'POST') {
+        res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')
+        res.writeHead(405)
+        res.end(JSON.stringify({ error: 'Method Not Allowed' }))
+        logger.error('Rejected request: Method not allowed')
+        return
+      }
+
+      let activeRequest: null | childProcess.ChildProcess = null
+
+      res.on('close', () => {
+        activeRequest?.kill()
+        activeRequests.delete(res)
+      })
+      activeRequests.set(res, null)
+
+      streamToPromise(req, SERVER_MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE_BYTES)
+        .then(requestBody => {
+          let parsed: unknown
+          try {
+            parsed = JSON.parse(requestBody)
+          } catch (err) {
+            throw new Error('Malformed JSON in request body')
+          }
+          if (!Array.isArray(parsed) || parsed.some(item => typeof item !== 'string')) {
+            throw new Error('Request body MUST have a type of string[]')
+          }
+          return parsed as string[]
+        })
+        .then(
+          args => {
+            res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')
+            res.writeHead(200)
+
+            activeRequest = childProcess.spawn(
+              config.ffmpegPath,
+              rewriteArgsInServer(args, config),
+              {
+                stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
+              }
+            )
+            activeRequest.stdout?.on('data', chunk => {
+              res.write(`${JSON.stringify({ stream: 'stdout', data: chunk.toString() })}\n`)
+            })
+            activeRequest.stdout?.on('end', () => {
+              res.write(`${JSON.stringify({ stream: 'stdout', data: null })}\n`)
+            })
+            activeRequest.stderr?.on('data', chunk => {
+              res.write(`${JSON.stringify({ stream: 'stderr', data: chunk.toString() })}\n`)
+            })
+            activeRequest.stderr?.on('end', () => {
+              res.write(`${JSON.stringify({ stream: 'stderr', data: null })}\n`)
+            })
+            activeRequest.on('error', err => {
+              res.end(`${JSON.stringify({ stream: 'stderr', data: err.message })}\n`)
+              activeRequests.delete(res)
+              activeRequest = null
+            })
+            activeRequest.on('exit', code => {
+              res.end(`${JSON.stringify({ exitCode: code })}\n`)
+              activeRequests.delete(res)
+              activeRequest = null
+            })
+          },
+          err => {
+            res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')
+            res.writeHead(400)
+            res.end(JSON.stringify({ error: err.message }))
+            logger.error('Rejected request: Bad Request')
+          }
+        )
+    })
+    .listen(config.listenPort, config.listenAddress)
 }
 
 main().catch(err => {
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 5073ab4..d84eadd 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -40,5 +40,5 @@
     "skipDefaultLibCheck": true,                      /* Skip type checking .d.ts files that are included with TypeScript. */
     "skipLibCheck": true                                 /* Skip type checking all .d.ts files. */
   },
-  "include": ["src/"]
+  "include": ["src/", "typings/"],
 }
diff --git a/typings/sb-stream-promise.d.ts b/typings/sb-stream-promise.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e4aeb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/typings/sb-stream-promise.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+declare module 'sb-stream-promise' {
+  export default function streamToPromise(
+    stream: NodeJS.ReadableStream,
+    bytesLimit?: number
+  ): Promise<string>
+}
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 515839a..4e63725 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -207,6 +207,11 @@ esbuild@^0.20.0:
     "@esbuild/win32-ia32" "0.20.0"
     "@esbuild/win32-x64" "0.20.0"
 
+sb-stream-promise@^2.0.0:
+  version "2.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/sb-stream-promise/-/sb-stream-promise-2.0.0.tgz#f822b4d9b8e9739a2de30069e865904b1fbddcf5"
+  integrity sha512-Aw3zZ1icG9nVU5JvhjukyFftYqqVBOny9qsL6PPDwS+Qvj/78SVU+sJ+jgE7wmoCBcgkWe+3gjo6oKL8/FuOcA==
+
 strip-json-comments@^5.0.1:
   version "5.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/strip-json-comments/-/strip-json-comments-5.0.1.tgz#0d8b7d01b23848ed7dbdf4baaaa31a8250d8cfa0"