diff --git a/app.toml.template b/app.toml.template
index 19f0a27f4..34dc86178 100644
--- a/app.toml.template
+++ b/app.toml.template
@@ -15,14 +15,12 @@ CPUReservation = "10"
 MemoryReservation = "118Gi"
 MemoryLimit = "118Gi"
 GPUCount = 1
-GPUType = "training-gpu"
 VolumeMount = "/home/llmstudio/mount"
 VolumeSize = "1Ti"
 ResourceVolumeSize = "1Ti"
 EnableSHM = true
 EnableOIDC = true
 RoutingMode = "BASE_URL"
-CustomImage = "docker.io/h2oairelease/h2oai-llmstudio-app:v{{VERSION}}"
 
 [[Env]]
 Name = "H2O_LLM_STUDIO_WORKDIR"
@@ -39,3 +37,7 @@ Value = "True"
 [[Env]]
 Name = "H2O_WAVE_PRIVATE_DIR"
 Value = "/download/@/home/llmstudio/mount/output/download"
+
+[[Env]]
+Name = "HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER"
+Value = "0"
diff --git a/llm_studio/app_utils/config.py b/llm_studio/app_utils/config.py
index 2c1b023a1..88d055f6f 100644
--- a/llm_studio/app_utils/config.py
+++ b/llm_studio/app_utils/config.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from types import SimpleNamespace
 
 import toml
+from huggingface_hub.constants import _is_true
 
 toml_root_dir = os.path.abspath(
     os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "../..")
@@ -160,8 +161,8 @@ def get_size(x):
         "default_wandb_project": os.getenv("WANDB_PROJECT", ""),
         "default_wandb_entity": os.getenv("WANDB_ENTITY", ""),
         "default_huggingface_api_token": os.getenv("HF_TOKEN", ""),
-        "default_hf_hub_enable_hf_transfer": os.getenv(
-            "HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER", True
+        "default_hf_hub_enable_hf_transfer": _is_true(
+            os.getenv("HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER", "1")
         ),
         "default_openai_azure": os.getenv("OPENAI_API_TYPE", "open_ai") == "azure",
         "default_openai_api_token": os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY", ""),