1) Amazon EC2: Amazon's well known cloud computing service. The cheapest model is called "Micro Instances" and costs $0.02 per hour, which translates into $14.5 per month. Not so bad, although you do also have to pay for storage separately.
EC2 is used by logging into your instance via remote desktop, so you have the freedom of running it pretty much however you want.
2) Google App Engine: Google offers this alternative to EC2. The nice thing about this service is that it is 100% free for up to 5 million page views per month. It does force a certain approach to writing your server though, as you it can only be written in Java or Python and you have to use some specific Google API's for data storage.
3) Windows Azure: Microsoft's cloud service. Integrates well with Visual Studio, as they offer a plugin for it. The smallest instance they offer is still $0.05 per hour, over double the price of Amazon. This seems to be the least appealing of the bunch for price, but does offer some integration with VS and .Net to make up for it.
I think I'm going to try Google App Engine first, since well, it's free.
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