ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that ought to be present on a hosting server to enable images to appear on a given website. They allow you to perform a variety of tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so on. These things can certainly be carried out online and in real time, so if you add a static image, for instance, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to appear on the internet site or for the image to be resized automatically depending upon the device and resolution which the website visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be employed with many web programming languages including PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't need to stick to one particular language to develop your internet site. They work with over 100 formats, including the most widespread ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and activated as standard on our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform, so your scripts will be able to use them regardless of the Linux hosting that you select when you join us. This will help you build interactive sites without having to worry about any kind of tech restrictions on our end. If you have a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while if you own a social network or a similar website which engages your guests in some way, you are able to provide them with a number of editing solutions for the pictures which they upload. You can also convert text to pictures, that will give you various opportunities with regards to what content you can offer on your website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud web hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account shall be generated, which means that you'll be able to use all of the attributes of any script application which requires any of these 2 libraries in order to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, discussion boards, and so on. In case you are a website designer, you'll be able to write the code yourself because we also support a lot of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To provide you with even more options with regards to what kind of apps you can run, we support a number of different PHP releases - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2. GD and ImageMagick will be enabled for any of them, so the software environment on the servers will never limit your choice in terms of the types of websites that you can host.