diff --git a/src/app/backend-selection.service.ts b/src/app/backend-selection.service.ts
index 4a5889100327b4e58153bc1259835ea74d55f922..b06ed2c9058aa7aa087b64ca6719d96cca2ca79c 100644
--- a/src/app/backend-selection.service.ts
+++ b/src/app/backend-selection.service.ts
@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@ export class BackendSelectionService {
     var servers: APIServer[];
     servers = this.apiservers.value;
     for (let server of servers) {
-      combineLatest([of([performance.now()]),
+      combineLatest([of(performance.now()),
       this.http.get<string>(server.tes+'/sshagent',options).pipe(
         timeout(timeouts))])
-      .subscribe((ok) => {server.ping = (performance.now() - ok[0])},
+      .subscribe((ok) => {server.ping = (performance.now() - <number>(ok[0]))},
                  (err) => {server.ping = undefined});
     }
   }
diff --git a/src/assets/config/apiservers.json b/src/assets/config/apiservers.json
index 5d68e15a2e5f21ab997c1d58aa14eef746b81d0f..c88991ea97a3fd8623744d97310c197d19af4f42 100644
--- a/src/assets/config/apiservers.json
+++ b/src/assets/config/apiservers.json
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
         "tes": "https://strudel2-api-dev.cloud.cvl.org.au/tes",
         "tws": "https://strudel2-api-dev.cloud.cvl.org.au"
     },
+    {
+        "name": "Beta",
+        "tes": "https://beta-api.cloud.cvl.org.au/tes",
+        "tws": "https://beta-api.cloud.cvl.org.au"
+    },
     {
         "name": "Testing",
         "tes": "https://strudel2-api-test.cloud.cvl.org.au/tes",