{"id":5612,"date":"2025-09-04T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/?p=5612"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:03:06","slug":"how-to-use-the-sim-vps-template-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-use-the-sim-vps-template-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use the Sim VPS Template at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The &ldquo;Ubuntu 24.04 with Sim&rdquo; VPS template comes with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/simstudioai\/sim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sim Studio<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> pre-installed, providing a user-friendly web interface to build and deploy AI agent workflows. With Sim&rsquo;s Figma-like canvas, you can easily create agentic workflows, write evaluations, and deploy AI agents that automate tasks &ndash; no manual coding required.<\/span><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><h2 id=\"accessing-the-sim-web-interface\">Accessing the Sim Web Interface<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once your VPS is deployed, you can manage your Sim instance directly from hPanel without using SSH:<\/span><\/p><ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Go to your VPS dashboard in Hostinger&rsquo;s hPanel.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click the Manage App button.<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5617 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/mLn91zAJp.png\" alt=\"Sim VPS dashboard showing Ubuntu 24.04 with root access and server usage stats\" width=\"1124\" height=\"555\" data-media-id=\"5617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/mLn91zAJp.png 1124w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/mLn91zAJp-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/mLn91zAJp-1024x506.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/mLn91zAJp-768x379.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1124px) 100vw, 1124px\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This will open the SIM login page in your browser.<\/span><\/p><h3><\/h3><h2 id=\"logging-in\">Logging In<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the login screen, click the &lsquo;Create Account&rsquo; button and fill in the required fields.<\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5616 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/qAasTYbAsa-e1756972371104.png\" alt=\"Create account form with Full Name, Email, Password fields and purple Create Account button\" width=\"550\" height=\"545\" data-media-id=\"5616\"><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once registered, you&rsquo;ll see your Sim management dashboard.<\/span><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><h2 id=\"building-workflows\">Building workflows<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creating workflows in Sim is a visual and intuitive process. Start by clicking the &ldquo;New Workflow&rdquo; button in the dashboard. This opens a blank canvas where you can begin building your automation. Blocks are the fundamental building blocks of workflows, representing tasks such as fetching data from an API, sending an email, or processing information. Drag and drop nodes from the node panel onto the canvas to get started.<\/span><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5615 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/%5EazrTYr0-e1756972554966.png\" alt=\"Workflow builder with Start node and selected Image Generator 1 prompt settings\" width=\"650\" height=\"429\" data-media-id=\"5615\"><\/p><h3><\/h3><h2 id=\"environment-variables\">Environment variables<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you deploy Hostinger&rsquo;s &ldquo;Ubuntu 24.04 with Sim&rdquo; template, every Sim setting is handled the same way Docker handles it &ndash; through environment variables declared in the Compose file that launches the container.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can easily edit them by navigating to your VPS &gt;&gt; Docker Manager &gt;&gt; Edit Sim &gt;&gt; YAML Editor section.<\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/LnaP025nACmasasc.png\" alt=\"Docker Manager compose screen with simstudio YAML code preview highlighted\" width=\"1144\" height=\"788\" data-media-id=\"5618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/LnaP025nACmasasc.png 1144w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/LnaP025nACmasasc-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/LnaP025nACmasasc-1024x705.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/LnaP025nACmasasc-768x529.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After adjusting them, just hit deploy to save the changes.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you would like more details and advanced usage, you can visit the official<\/span>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.sim.ai\/introduction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sim documentation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Sim Studio in your VPS at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"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-5612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-os-and-templates"],"hreflangs":[],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612","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\/590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5627,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions\/5627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}