ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that ought to be present on a hosting server in order for images to show up on a given site. They allow you to execute a variety of tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, etcetera. These things can be carried out online and in real time, so if you add a static image, for example, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to show up on the site or for the image to be resized automatically based on the device and resolution the site visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD may be employed with many web programming languages like PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't have to stick to just one language to develop your site. They work with over 100 formats, including the most widespread ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so on.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available and enabled by default on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them regardless of the hosting that you select when you join us. This will help you build interactive sites without having to worry about any sort of technical restrictions on our end. If you own a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while when you own a social network or a similar site that engages your visitors in some way, you can offer them a variety of editing solutions for the pictures which they upload. In addition, you can convert text to pictures, that gives you a number of opportunities as to what content you're able to offer on your site.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can execute any script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to make charts or use images, as both are installed and enabled as standard on the cloud web hosting platform where all of the 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 available at all times. This way, you've got a lot of alternatives in respect to what functions both you and your site visitors shall be able to use, regardless if you are writing the website code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and install some app which you have discovered online. You're able to take advantage of all of the sought-after formats for the photos that you upload.