A Raspberry pi is $35, for the latest model, and you definitely do not need an enclosure. You do need a power adapter, which may be around $10. But also, an old

A Raspberry pi is $35, for the latest model, and you definitely do not need an enclosure. You do need a power adapter, which may be around $10. But also, an older Raspberry pi can be even cheaper! I'm not advocating for people hosting sites on a Raspberry pi in their homes, but it's certainly easy to do and if your operation is small enough and you have an extra computer lying around the cost is actually near $0. Pretty much every ISP I've used in the US has had mostly static IPs. They usually didn't change unless the modem got rebooted. This is good enough for your minecraft server or unimportant personal website. But of course if your residential internet is no longer serving your hosting needs, you can go a step up and get a virtual host or colocate your old computer! Yes colocation will cost a lot more than a virtual host on a PHP shared host, but you also get more computing bang for your buck. Sysadmin-ing is not the boogeyman it once was!