Hi, My program first connects to another server and get some data to initialises itself. When the initialisation finishes which could take few minutes, it then start listening on a port and waiting to server other clients. My question is, how do I delay the starting of my server until the program is ready? I am currently using some thing like this in my server.tac file, but this will star the server instantly. client = internet.TCPClient(otherHost, otherPort, clientFactory) client.setServiceParent(myService) server = internet.TCPServer(myPort, serverFactory) server.setServiceParent(myService) Thanks,