ImageMagick and GD are software libraries which should be present on a hosting server for images to appear on a certain site. They enable you to carry out various tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so on. These things could be performed 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 site or for the image to be resized automatically depending on the device and resolution the site visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD may be employed with many web programming languages such as PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't need to stick to one particular language to develop your website. They work with over one hundred formats, which includes the most widespread ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, etc.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available and enabled by default on our revolutionary cloud website hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them whatever the Linux hosting service that you select when you sign up. This will help you set up interactive sites without having to worry about any sort of technical restrictions on our end. In case you have a portfolio website, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while if you own a social network or a similar website which engages the guests in some way, you will be able to offer them various editing solutions for the images they upload. In addition, you can convert text to pictures, which will provide you with a number of opportunities as to what content you're able to offer on your site.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated server account will be created, so you can employ all the attributes of any script application that requires any of these two libraries in order to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, picture galleries, message boards, and so on. In case you are a web developer, you're able to write the program code yourself because we also support a lot of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To provide you with even more options with regards to what kind of applications you can run, we support a number of 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, so the software environment on our servers will never limit your choice in terms of the types of sites which you can have.