If you would want to have dynamic images on your internet site, the machine where you host it must have the correct software for this. As an alternative to using static images with a fixed size, you could have thumbnails and automatically resized images depending on the device a visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images via a script application. All these things are possible via ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that could be installed on a web server and which work with a lot of frequently used scripting languages like: Perl, Python and PHP. That way, you may use images with any web-based app you want, regardless what language it was designed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will enable you to work with over a hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etcetera.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our outstanding cloud website hosting platform, so no matter which of our web hosting plans you purchase, both apps will be available and activated as standard for your new account. They will be a part of the software setting for your sites regardless of the PHP version that you select because we offer a number of different versions. Any kind of custom or ready-made script application will be able to use the libraries in order to make thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. According to the nature of your website, you will also be able to provide numerous options for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network website and many others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud web hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account shall be created, so you'll be able to employ all of the attributes of any script app that requires any of the two libraries so as to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, forums, and the like. In case you are a web developer, you are able to write the code yourself because we also support lots of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To offer you even more options with regards to what kind of applications you are able to run, we support several different PHP versions - 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 are enabled for any of them, so the software environment on our servers will not limit your choice in terms of the types of sites which you can have.