The site has hundreds of megabytes of images embedded into it, the "suffering from scale" thing is to mean that her approach was totally fine for the first few dozen of images but is impractical now. (I'm still not sure what you're asking)
I'm asking if you're being serious or not out of concern for the site author. I don't know how much more clear I can be.
If I host hundreds of megabytes of images and get a lot of unexpected traffic I may or may not be hurting, it depends entirely on my setup. On one hand she's a photographer I'm sure she understands a bit about how big images can be. On the other hand she's a photographer and may not be prepared to handle the traffic or be facing a ridiculous bill. If the later was the case I was going to offer to help in some way like donate $5 or something to help cover her bandwidth costs. None of this matters now so whatever.
