EVE Technology Lab

I am currently in the process of building a Windows Phone 8, Android, Winrt, and iPhone application that allows you to follow the progress of your characters (mail, skills, money, jobs, etc.) I have built the back end (which pulls the xml and then parses it into objects) but I keep coming to the same question once I get far enough in.

Should I handle pulling and updating on a separate server (probably sponsored by someone. Azure maybe?) and send the information already turned into a usable object (serialized of course) from the server to the client and have the server update it every time the Eve Api updates. Or should I handle everything client side somehow.

If I were to handle it server side where would be the best place to be able to have a server (that I don't host) but can create processes that are run and also able to store information.


More info on project:
At the moment I have the character sheet (character portrait and all the information you see when you are choosing which character when you are logging into eve) and the mail done. I have built my own back end with pulls the xml and also parses it my own way. I then serialize everything and store it into a text file for later use. The next time that page is loaded is checks the current eve server time and sees if the information is out of date. If so it pulls new info and updates the file, otherwise just pulls the page automatically.


Any help would be appreciated!

Steve, Thanks for answering!

Yea that is how I have been thinking about it, I just haven't figured out how to run the data updating in the background yet.