diff --git a/backend/backend.py b/backend/backend.py
index ce398c6a..88e18968 100644
--- a/backend/backend.py
+++ b/backend/backend.py
@@ -121,6 +121,30 @@ def edit_page():
     output = render_template("edit.html", uuid=uuid, watch=datastore.data['watching'][uuid], messages=messages)
     return output
 
+
+@app.route("/settings", methods=['GET', "POST"])
+def settings_page():
+    global messages
+    if request.method == 'POST':
+        try:
+            minutes = int(request.values.get('minutes').strip())
+        except ValueError:
+            messages.append({'class': 'error', 'message': "Invalid value given, use an integer."})
+
+        else:
+            if minutes >= 5 and minutes <= 600:
+                datastore.data['settings']['requests']['minutes_between_check'] = minutes
+                datastore.needs_write = True
+
+                messages.append({'class': 'ok', 'message': "Updated"})
+            else:
+                messages.append({'class': 'error', 'message': "Must be equal to or greater than 5 and less than 600 minutes"})
+
+    output = render_template("settings.html", messages=messages, minutes=datastore.data['settings']['requests']['minutes_between_check'])
+    messages =[]
+
+    return output
+
 @app.route("/import", methods=['GET', "POST"])
 def import_page():
     import validators
@@ -275,8 +299,12 @@ def launch_checks():
     import fetch_site_status
     global running_update_threads
 
-    for uuid,watch in datastore.data['watching'].items():
-        if watch['last_checked'] <= time.time() - 3 * 60 * 60:
+
+    minutes = datastore.data['settings']['requests']['minutes_between_check']
+    for uuid, watch in datastore.data['watching'].items():
+
+
+        if watch['last_checked'] <= time.time() - (minutes * 60):
             running_update_threads[watch['uuid']] = fetch_site_status.perform_site_check(uuid=uuid,
                                                                                          datastore=datastore)
             running_update_threads[watch['uuid']].start()
diff --git a/backend/store.py b/backend/store.py
index 5dc79422..2702602f 100644
--- a/backend/store.py
+++ b/backend/store.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class ChangeDetectionStore:
                 },
                 'requests': {
                     'timeout': 15, # Default 15 seconds
-                    'max_seconds_from_last_check': 3 * 60 * 60 # Default 3 hours
+                    'minutes_between_check': 3 * 60 # Default 3 hours
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -47,7 +47,18 @@ class ChangeDetectionStore:
             with open('/datastore/url-watches.json') as json_file:
                 from_disk = json.load(json_file)
 
-                self.__data.update(from_disk)
+                # @todo isnt there a way todo this dict.update recursively?
+                # Problem here is if the one on the disk is missing a sub-struct, it wont be present anymore.
+                if 'watching' in from_disk:
+                    self.__data['watching'].update(from_disk['watching'])
+
+                if 'settings' in from_disk:
+                    if 'headers' in from_disk['settings']:
+                        self.__data['settings']['headers'].update(from_disk['settings']['headers'])
+
+                    if 'requests' in from_disk['settings']:
+                        self.__data['settings']['requests'].update(from_disk['settings']['requests'])
+
 
                 # Reinitialise each `watching` with our generic_definition in the case that we add a new var in the future.
                 # @todo pretty sure theres a python we todo this with an abstracted(?) object!
diff --git a/backend/templates/settings.html b/backend/templates/settings.html
index 54ebaeb4..cc7008dd 100644
--- a/backend/templates/settings.html
+++ b/backend/templates/settings.html
@@ -4,34 +4,16 @@
 <div class="edit-form">
 
 
-    <form class="pure-form pure-form-stacked" action="/api/update?uuid={{uuid}}" method="POST">
+    <form class="pure-form pure-form-stacked" action="/settings" method="POST">
         <fieldset>
             <div class="pure-control-group">
-                <label for="url">URL</label>
-                <input type="url" id="url" required="" placeholder="https://..." name="url" value="{{ watch.url}}"
-                       size="50"/>
+                <label for="minutes">Minutes between recheck</label>
+                <input type="text" id="minutes" required="" name="minutes" value="{{minutes}}"
+                       size="5"/>
                 <span class="pure-form-message-inline">This is a required field.</span>
             </div>
-            <div class="pure-control-group">
-                <label for="tag">Tag</label>
-                <input type="text" placeholder="tag" size="10" id="tag" name="tag" value="{{ watch.tag}}"/>
-            </div>
 
-            <fieldset class="pure-group">
-                <label for="headers">Extra request headers</label>
-
-                <textarea id=headers name="headers" class="pure-input-1-2" placeholder="Example
-Cookie: foobar
-User-Agent: wonderbra 1.0"
-                          style="width: 100%;
-                            font-family:monospace;
-                            white-space: pre;
-                            overflow-wrap: normal;
-                            overflow-x: scroll;" rows="5">{% for key, value in watch.headers.items() %}{{ key }}: {{ value }}
-{% endfor %}</textarea>
-                <br/>
-
-            </fieldset>
+
             <div class="pure-control-group">
                 <button type="submit" class="pure-button pure-button-primary">Save</button>
             </div>
@@ -39,9 +21,6 @@ User-Agent: wonderbra 1.0"
 
             <div class="pure-control-group">
                 <a href="/" class="pure-button button-small button-cancel">Cancel</a>
-                <a href="/api/delete?uuid={{uuid}}"
-                   class="pure-button button-small button-error ">Delete</a>
-
             </div>