On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:06 +0100, mouss wrote: > it depends on what you want to exchange. you don't need to design server > software. you can use http (if running an http server is ok), stunnel, > ssh, ... you can even use mysql! Hi, the amount of data being exchanged is very small (<1k), but it *must* be low-latency. Communicating via http/mysql would mean both servers polling for changes to a database or flatfile db/logfile, which would be highly undesirable.