tadaskay

Thanks for introducing time4vps: I was very surprised I can get a box for $1/month. Going through their website I found that in fact it is being run by IV (a major and reliable long-time local player in VPS/VDS/hosting market), so I wouldn't worry about the quality. Their network and infrastructure is superb.

It is rather a bold claim that REST is synchronous by nature. Synchronous only means less complexity, but it is by far not a standard. Considering the example in the article, calls to EmailService should be asynchronous and rather return '202 Accepted' instead of blocking.

"is /api/thing the wrong path" - is fixed by hypermedia, so 404 generally means that resource cannot be found.