[Devel] communicating between host and VPS

[John Paul Walters]

I'm wondering if there's a preferred way to communicate between a host
and a VPS.  For example, I'd like a VPS to occasionally communicate to
the host and request a checkpoint on its behalf.  I suppose I could use
a named pipe or something, but was wondering if there's a better
mechanism that's typically used.  Any thoughts?

thanks,
JP