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ROS Indigo can be installed on any of the various flavors of Ubuntu 14.04 - desktop, server, cloud, etc. (It can also be installed on many other flavors of linux with a little more work!).

The network transport in ROS isn't well-suited for internet-scale deployments, mostly because there are no security features, and there isn't a lot of tolerance to network failures like poor wifi. Most of the large deployments I've seen use ROS on the robot, and sometimes within a building, and then have a bridge to a different protocol over the internet. rosjs has been fairly popular here.