I was wondering if there was any free/cheap backend solutions for multi player flash games.
I think I could run turn-based games with amfphp and MySQL memory tables. Although… Rather inefficient with the constant calls to check for new data with the way I was thinking. 
Is Red5 is just designed for Streaming music and video? Does Flash Player 9/AS3 have the capabilities, and is there a server program good enough to get down to around 100ms response times for games??
Getting 1kb of data from MySQL:
AmfPHP:
Total time: 181 ms
Encode time: 1 ms
Send/receive time: 180 ms
Decode time: 0 ms
Network time: 159 ms
Total amfphp time: 21 ms
Framework time: 15 ms
Amf decode time: 0 ms
Service include time: 0 ms
Service call time: 5 ms
Amf encode time: 1 ms
