ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that ought to be present on a hosting server to enable images to appear on a certain site. They permit you to perform a variety of tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, etc. These things can easily be performed online and in real time, so if you include a static image, for example, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to appear on the website or for the image to be resized automatically with regards to the device and resolution the website visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be employed with many web programming languages such as PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't have to stick to only one language to develop your internet site. They work with over 100 formats, which includes the most widely used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so forth.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and activated as standard on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them regardless of the Linux cloud hosting that you select when you join us. This will allow you to create multimedia websites without worrying about any kind of technical limitations on our end. If you have a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures which show your work, while in case you own a social network or a similar site that engages your visitors in some way, you can provide them with various editing solutions for the pictures which they upload. In addition, you can convert text to images, that gives you many different opportunities as to what content you'll be able to offer on the site.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to run any script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to create charts or work with images, as both are set up and activated by default on the cloud hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you get new PHP version for your account, you won't need to do anything to re-enable these libraries because they'll be accessible all of the time. In this way, you've got plenty of options in respect to what attributes you and your site visitors will be able to employ, regardless if you are writing the site code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and set up some app that you have found on the worldwide web. You will be able to use all the widespread formats for the photos that you upload.