{"id":317,"date":"2025-05-16T12:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2025\/05\/16\/11394215-how-to-use-the-windmill-vps-template-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:07:01","slug":"11394215-how-to-use-the-windmill-vps-template-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/11394215-how-to-use-the-windmill-vps-template-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use the Windmill VPS template at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Windmill is a fast, open-source workflow engine and developer platform. It&rsquo;s an alternative to the likes of Retool, Superblocks, n8n, Airflow, Prefect, Kestra and Temporal, designed to build comprehensive internal tools (endpoints, workflows, UIs). It supports coding in TypeScript, Python, Go, PHP, Bash, C#, SQL and Rust, or any Docker image, alongside intuitive low-code builders. With the <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-windmill-vps-template\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583571-what-are-the-available-operating-systems-for-vps-at-hostinger\/\">Windmill VPS template<\/a> from Hostinger, Windmill comes pre-installed, so you can start building workflow tools immediately.<\/p><h2 id=\"h_d9b438ff7f\"><b>Accessing Windmill<\/b><\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Once your VPS is deployed using this template, Windmill is ready to use out of the box. Open your web browser and navigate to:<\/p><pre><code>https:\/\/[your-vps-hostname]<\/code><\/pre><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">See <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-how-to-find-your-vps-ip-address-at-hostinger\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5139756-how-to-find-your-vps-ip-address-at-hostinger\/\">how to find your VPS IP address at Hostinger<\/a> to check your VPS IP<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">The first time, you&rsquo;ll be prompted to create an admin account and set up your windmill instance.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/05\/4126a23e-bf8f-4d68-ac17-32d3a6aa3112.jpg\" alt=\"Windmill VPS login screen with email, password fields and sign in button\" data-media-id=\"1803\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">After logging in, you can access the Windmill interface and create your custom flows.<\/p><h2 id=\"h_9dea75b052\"><b>Updating Windmill<\/b><\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">It&rsquo;s important to keep your Windmill version up to date. This ensures you get the latest features and fixes. Follow these steps in SSH to update Windmill:<\/p><pre><code># Change directory\r\ncd \/root\/windmill\/\r\n# Pull latest version\r\ndocker compose pull\r\n# Stop and remove older version\r\ndocker compose down\r\n# Start the container\r\ndocker compose up -d<\/code><\/pre><p class=\"no-margin\">Hostinger&rsquo;s Windmill VPS templates let you quickly set up and manage workflow automation solutions.<\/p><p><strong>Additional resources<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li class=\"no-margin\"><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-windmill-official-website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windmill.dev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windmill Official website&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"no-margin\"><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-windmill-official-documentation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windmill.dev\/docs\/intro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windmill Official documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting started with Windmill VPS template on Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-os-and-templates"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/11394215-how-to-use-the-windmill-vps-template-at-hostinger","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15666,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/15666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}