If you would like to have dynamic images on your website, the server where you host it must have the appropriate software for this. As an alternative to using static images with a fixed size, you may have thumbnails and automatically resized images dependant upon the device a website visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images via a script app. All of these things are feasible via ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that can be set up on a hosting server and which work with a large amount of frequently used scripting languages such as: Perl, Python and PHP. Thus, you may use images with any web-based app you'd like, regardless of the language it was created with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries shall allow you to work with more than a hundred different image formats such as GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and activated by default on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so your scripts can use them whatever the Linux shared package that you select when you join us. This will allow you to set up interactive sites without having to worry about any sort of tech restrictions on our end. When you own a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures that show your work, while when you have a social network or a similar website which engages the guests in some way, you are able to offer them a number of editing options for the photographs that they upload. You can also convert text to pictures, which provides you with a number of opportunities with regards to what content you can offer on the website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud web hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account shall be generated, therefore you can employ all of the features of any script app that needs any of these 2 libraries in order to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, image galleries, forums, and so on. In case you are a web developer, you will be able to write the code yourself since we also support lots of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To provide you with even more options with regards to what kind of apps you'll be able to run, we support many different PHP versions - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. GD and ImageMagick will be enabled for all of them, so the software environment on the servers won't limit your choice in terms of the types of websites which you can have.