Since the devine chats, I've been thinking about this.
I'm thinking media hosting an relays as a service should be compelling to larger nostr applications. Since nostr brings security, redundancy, and load balancing to the client, you could purchase relay services from many providers on around the world with varying levels of availability, decentralization, and performance. Ideally if provider 1 goes down, provider 2 is still up, 3 and so on. These are active-active providers ideally so you're hardly over provisioning ideally. I know the hosting costs are fixed, so the only added cost would be over-provisioning, but they would get weighed in with the "as a service" cost analysis.
I'm sure if asked, many providers would be willing to handle contractual obligations such as guarantees, ownership and so on.
