Do you remember what happened here? Did you restart the API backend, or it exited on it's own? I cannot seem to recreate the crash/exit. But there is indeed a long delay if the NAS mount is not reachable (This will be fixed in 1.4.3)
Mar 27 07:19:40 snakeoilnuc snakeoil-server.sh[1309]: [5] Snakeoil API Listening to requests at: 127.0.0.1:30511 [helper/rest_server.cpp:58|rest_server_c::listen()]
Mar 27 07:24:32 snakeoilnuc systemd[1]: Stopping snakeoil-rest.service - Snakeoil RestAPI server...