If you would like to have dynamic images on your internet site, the machine where you host it ought to have the proper software for this. As opposed to using static images with a fixed size, you can have thumbnails and automatically resized images dependant upon the device a visitor uses or you could even flip and invert images using a script app. All these things are feasible with ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that can be set up on a web server and which work with a wide range of frequently used scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. In this way, you can use images with any web-based app you'd like, no matter 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, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Website Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our leading-edge cloud website hosting platform, therefore regardless of which of our website hosting you obtain, both apps will be available and activated as standard for your brand new account. They're a part of the software environment for your websites regardless of the PHP version that you choose since we provide a number of different versions. Every custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries to make thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Depending on the nature of your site, you will also be able to offer a lot of features for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network site and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account shall be created, therefore you will be able to employ the full features of any script application that needs any of the two libraries so as to manage images, like Joomla, WordPress, image galleries, user discussion forums, and many others. In case you are a website designer, you can write the program code yourself since we also support a lot of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To give you even more options with regards to what kind of applications you're 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, which means that the software environment on our servers won't limit your choice in terms of the types of sites that you can host.