AWS has cheap hosting, but I think it generally goes against nostr culture to do so. Someone's gotta get paid to host data, but maybe relays like nostr.build could act like the central node for mining pools, where nostr.build farms data hosting out to a keet.io channel that's supported by a number of at-home NASs. Nostr.build could monitize the service they provide by requiring a payment for uploading pictures, and then stream sats to split among the host participants based on who has the data available when its requested. I'm a bit of a keet.io shill, but I think it could help split the load if people are going to be sharing lots of data here.

I could easily give nostr 10tB on my NAS with unlimited data cap, but I'd feel a lot better about running that through keet and pooling with a few others for simplicity and not breaking peoples experience if I have a power outage.