ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that ought to be present on a server to enable images to show up on a certain internet site. They allow you to execute a variety of tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so on. These things can 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 show up on the website or for the image to be resized automatically based on the device and resolution which the website visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be used with lots of web programming languages including PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't need to stick to one particular language to create your internet site. They work with over a hundred formats, which includes the most widespread ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so on.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and enabled as standard on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them regardless of the Linux web hosting that you select when you sign up. This will allow you to set up multimedia websites without having to worry about any kind of tech limitations on our end. If you have a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while in case you have a social network or a similar website which engages your visitors in some way, you are able to provide them with a variety of editing solutions for the pictures they upload. In addition, you can convert text to pictures, that will give you quite a lot of opportunities with regards to what content you can offer on your website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can run any kind of script app which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to make charts or work with images, as both are set up and enabled as standard on the cloud website hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even though you may upgrade the PHP version for your account, you won't need to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries because they shall be accessible all the time. This way, you will have loads of options in respect to what attributes both you and your website visitors shall be able to employ, regardless if you are writing the site code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and set up some app that you have discovered on the web. You are able to employ all of the sought-after formats for the images which you upload.