There's many methods of remotely-controlling an Arduino over the Internet, (such as teleduino) and another method has been demonstrated by Instructables user "geo bruce". In this version a Linux server running PHP connected to an Arduino is remotely controlled via a simple user-created webpage. In this example a light is controlled via a relay, however you can of course control other things. The control is by simple serial commands from the server to the Arduono, which acts on the incoming characters. For example:
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