There has been an enormous amount of discussion over the past 2 years about new technologies that are going to set a new standard in the application hosting space. But what is fact and what is fiction, and more importantly, should you care?

Most pundits will say how inherently global and transparent the Internet is, allowing a server with a public IP address to be accessed from anywhere. While public-facing servers do have broad accessibility there are a number of dirty secrets that the sales staff at your favorite server provider fails to mention.