Hey, I'm really late to this party :) but I thought I'd mention https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/ I have a KVM instance in their Montreal data centre that runs my https://dianne.skoll.ca/ web site. I think I pay around $8/month. You have root access, so can do system updates to your heart's content, though of course you have no control over the underlying host OS. Includes IPv6 at no extra charge. Regards, Dianne.