diff --git a/src/main/java/hello/HelloController.java b/src/main/java/hello/HelloController.java
index 59fe6ea..882c6fd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/hello/HelloController.java
+++ b/src/main/java/hello/HelloController.java
@@ -2,13 +2,14 @@ package hello;
 
 import io.micronaut.http.MediaType;
 
+import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.net.UnknownHostException;
 import java.util.ArrayDeque;
 import java.util.Deque;
 
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
-import io.micronaut.core.annotation.Nullable;
 import io.micronaut.core.util.CollectionUtils;
 import io.micronaut.http.HttpResponse;
 import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Consumes;
@@ -23,7 +24,6 @@ public class HelloController {
 
     private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HelloController.class);
 
-
     private static long counter = 0;
     private static Deque<String> msgDeque = new ArrayDeque<String>();
     private static String hostname;
@@ -32,10 +32,17 @@ public class HelloController {
     @PostConstruct
     void initialize() {
         log.info("initialize()");
-        hostname = System.getenv("HOSTNAME");
-
+        try {
+            InetAddress inetadd = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
+            hostname = inetadd.getHostName();
+        } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
+            log.error("", e);
+            hostname = System.getenv("HOSTNAME");
+        }
+        
     }
 
+
     @Get("/")
     @View("index")
     public HttpResponse<?> index() {
@@ -50,20 +57,23 @@ public class HelloController {
     }
    
 
+    @Get("/ping")
+    @View("pong")
+    public HttpResponse<?> ping() {        
+        return HttpResponse.ok(CollectionUtils.mapOf("hostname", hostname, "counter", counter, "messages", msgDeque));
+    }
+
+
     @Post("/ping")
     @View("pong")
     @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED)
-    public HttpResponse<?> ping(@Nullable String message) {
-        if(message != null && !message.isEmpty()) {
-            log.info(message);
-            counter++;
-            msgDeque.push(message);
-            //msgDeque.add(message);
-            //messages.add(0, message);
-            if(msgDeque.size() > 25) {
-                log.debug("Message deque: {}", msgDeque.size());
-                msgDeque.removeLast();
-            }
+    public HttpResponse<?> ping(String message) {
+        log.info(message);
+        counter++;
+        msgDeque.push(message);
+        if(msgDeque.size() > 25) {
+            log.debug("Message deque: {}", msgDeque.size());
+            msgDeque.removeLast();
         }
         return HttpResponse.ok(CollectionUtils.mapOf("hostname", hostname, "counter", counter, "messages", msgDeque));
     }
diff --git a/src/main/resources/views/index.html b/src/main/resources/views/index.html
index 94522f2..ebdd5c1 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/views/index.html
+++ b/src/main/resources/views/index.html
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
             </div>
 
             <div class="columns mt-4">
-                <div class="collumn" id="pong" hx-post="/ping" hx-trigger="load, queue:last, every 5s">
+                <div class="collumn" id="pong" hx-get="/ping" hx-trigger="load, queue:last, every 3s">
                 </div>
             </div>