What kind of online hosting do I need for a WCF-based service?

First of all, I'm not sure if SO is the right place to ask. Please migrate me if needed.

I would like to host a WCF-based service so it is available for everyone. While hosting it on my personal, local servers succeeded, I would prefer to move it to an external service provider for various reasons.

I'll be blunt: I have no clue about hosting providers. I know there are webhosters, virtual and root servers and several other services. What I would like to know is what kind of hosting I need in my case. I understand that a root server would easily fulfill my requirements, but that is not exactly cheap.

The program I'd like to run on the server is self-hosted (console app) and requires .NET 4, preferably on a windows machine. Access to a folder in the file system is much appreciated (1 GB storage is enough by far). C开发者_C百科ommunication with clients (in form of an applications written in .NET) via opening a port on the server. Traffic is low (<<1 GB/month?) There is no website. Having the provider perform updates would be nice.

My understanding is that a virtual server would be a possible solution. Prices seem start at around 5€/month, which is ok for me. However, I read that for these cheap solutions RAM is severely limited (~400 MB), and I'm not confident that is enough to run windows and a .NET application.

Edit: The binding is TCP, but I could change it to http. One thing I wonder about is if I can really "start the console server app". I'm not using IIS, so I guess the usual website hosts do not work?

It depends on what bindings you would like to expose. If it is simple basicHttpBinding then you can go with most of the .net hosting providers.