If you want to have dynamic images on your site, the server where you host it must have the proper software for that. Rather than using static images with a fixed size, you could have thumbnails and automatically resized images depending on the device a website visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images through a script application. All of these things are possible with ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that could be set up on a server and which work with a large amount of popular scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. Thus, you can use images with any web-based application that you would like, no matter what language it was created with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will permit you to work with over one hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Website Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and activated by default on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them whatever the Linux website hosting package that you select when you join us. This will help you build interactive sites without worrying about any sort of tech restrictions on our end. If you own a portfolio website, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while in case you own a social network or a similar site which engages your visitors in some way, you're able to provide them with various editing solutions for the photos they upload. Also, you can convert text to images, which provides you with numerous opportunities regarding what content you'll be able to offer on your website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated server account will be set up, therefore you'll be able to use the full attributes of any script app that needs any of these 2 libraries so as to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, picture galleries, community forums, and so on. In case you are a website designer, you can write the code yourself since we also support lots of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To offer you even more options with regards to what kind of applications you're able to run, we support many 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 are enabled for all of them, so the software environment on the servers will not limit your choice in terms of the types of websites which you can have.