If you would like to have dynamic images on your internet site, the web server in which you host it ought to have the appropriate software for that. As opposed 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 may even flip and invert images through a script application. All these things are possible with ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software that can be set up on a server and which work with a lot of widely used scripting languages like: Perl, Python and PHP. This way, you may use images with any web-based app that you'd like, no matter what language it was created with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries shall allow you to work with over one hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Website Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library can be found and activated by default on our innovative cloud web hosting platform, so your scripts can use them irrespective of the shared website hosting service that you select when you sign up. This will allow you to create interactive sites without worrying about any sort of technical limitations on our end. In case you have a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while if you have a social network or a similar website which engages the guests in some way, you're able to offer them a number of editing options for the photos they upload. Also, you can convert text to images, which will provide you with lots of opportunities as to what content you can offer on your site.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud web hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated server account will be generated, so you can take advantage of all of the features of any script application that needs any of the two libraries so as to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, picture galleries, user discussion forums, and so on. In case you are a web developer, you're able to write the program code yourself as we also support a number of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To provide you with even more options with regards to what sort of apps you can run, we support several 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 our servers will not restrict your choice in terms of the types of sites which you can host.