Had a similar incident with my son’s hand-me-down laptop. It just sits on a desk with a monitor and what-not plugged into it. It’s now a wide flat desktop.

Don’t set the static IP within the DHCP range (well you can, but it then depends on how smart your dhcp server is, just avoid the situation).

You run a risk of the same IP being assigned to another device.

Didn’t know about them!

I personally use GitHub pages for mine, now.

Static website? Upload to S3 via CI and serve it from there.

It’ll cost cents per month.

K8s is obscene overkill.

I assume all the cloud vendors have an S3 equivalent.