diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index 94b5d49..f9c49c9 100644
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -121,6 +121,4 @@ def healthcheck() -> responses.PlainTextResponse:
     return responses.PlainTextResponse(text, status_code=status_code)
 
 
-
-
-session.start_session_cleanup_thread()
\ No newline at end of file
+session.start_session_cleanup_thread()
diff --git a/check_config_service b/check_config_service
deleted file mode 100644
index 00bd9d4..0000000
--- a/check_config_service
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-CONFIG_EXISTS=0
-if [ -n "$(docker ps -q -f name=dev-setup_refinery-config_1)" ]
-then
-    if [ "$( docker container inspect -f '{{.State.Status}}' dev-setup_refinery-config_1 )" == "running" ]; 
-    then
-        CONFIG_EXISTS=1
-    fi
-elif [ -n "$(docker ps -q -f name=dev-setup-refinery-config-1)" ]
-then
-    if [ "$( docker container inspect -f '{{.State.Status}}' dev-setup-refinery-config-1 )" == "running" ]; 
-    then
-        CONFIG_EXISTS=1
-    fi
-else
-    if [ -n "$(docker ps -q -f name=refinery-config)" ];
-    then
-        if [ "$( docker container inspect -f '{{.State.Status}}' refinery-config )" == "running" ];
-        then
-            CONFIG_EXISTS=1
-        fi
-    fi
-fi
-if [ $CONFIG_EXISTS -eq 0 ]
-then 
-    echo "refinery-config couldn't be found - exit"
-    exit 1
-else
-    echo "refinery-config found -> proceeding"
-fi
-
diff --git a/handler/config_handler.py b/handler/config_handler.py
index dce1a88..6587b7b 100644
--- a/handler/config_handler.py
+++ b/handler/config_handler.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 __config = None
 
 # meant as a const value since env variables will be removed at some point
-REQUEST_URL = "http://refinery-config:80/full_config"
+REQUEST_URL = "http://refinery-gateway:80/full_config"
 
 
 def __get_config() -> Dict[str, Any]:
diff --git a/start b/start
index 2314697..6cb8ee1 100755
--- a/start
+++ b/start
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 trap "echo -ne '\nstopping container...' && docker stop refinery-tokenizer > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo -ne '\t\t [done]\n'" EXIT
 
-
-source check_config_service
-
 HIDE_BUILD=0
 while getopts :s flag
 do
diff --git a/submodules/model b/submodules/model
index 49ea175..2019057 160000
--- a/submodules/model
+++ b/submodules/model
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 49ea175bb3cd429ddc911996e0fe00e6763beefe
+Subproject commit 201905750781aefb9dcca53a5389144e73edd775