Very simple question, is there any cloud server enviroments avaliable these days for us .NET guys that rivals Amazons ec2?
EDIT:
PDC 2008 looks like there are some very interesting info, and only 4 days 2 hours to wait :-). Looks like I need to get saving fast for the conference fee though.
Hold your breath for PDC 2008 and you'll see. Also Amazon's EC2 service support for Windows images is in Beta. AWS Windows Support Blog Post
Oct 23 Update : AWS Windows Support Released To Production (details here)
Oct 27th Update : So you held your breath and saw the Reddog folk become "Windows Azure" cloud services and Sitka - SQL Server Data Services. Lots of activity to read and learn at MSDN, MS PDC site, Channel 9 etc. Have fun!
Check out Sql Server Data Services and make sure to tune in to PDC 2008 next week.
I use Mosso, a subsidiary of Rackspace. I've been pleased with them.
You can run PHP, Perl, .NET, and RoR on their system. MySQL as well as SQL Server.
It's not public yet but EasyDb is very .net-focused, it wraps your tables into an ASMX web service. There was a dnrtv episode on it, http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showNum=121
We took Mosso for a trial run earlier this year, and it was disastrous. On a number of criteria - uptime, customer service, flexibility - we would have been better off a $6/month shared hosting account. And they changed their pricing model midstream from a per-request model to a per-"compute cycle" model, the "compute cycle" being a mysterious proprietary metric that's impossible to optimize for because you don't know how it's calculated - the end result being that you could suddenly find yourself on the hook for thousands of dollars in charges for no good reason.