Because your uptime is spotty, you absolutely should have some means of restarting the site back up if the servers fall over. If I were your investor, I'd want

Because your uptime is spotty, you absolutely should have some means of restarting the site back up if the servers fall over. If I were your investor, I'd want to know that somebody was responsible for making sure the site's up. At the same time, I'm sympathetic to your cashflow situation. Even with the tax deduction at the end of the year, that doesn't affect your monthly bills right now. What I would do would be to set some objective metric for uptime that you and your cofounders agree upon. Until you get to that point, you cover the internet. Once you hit that point, the company covers the cost. I recognize that this is inverse of the actual work/money relationship (arguably, the company would be paying for the time when you need to have access to the site to get it going again), but I think the incentive is pretty clear that you want to get your uptime rock solid ASAP, and I think it aligns your objectives with the company's objectives.