ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that need to be present on a web server to enable images to appear on a certain website. They allow you to carry out different tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so forth. These things can be carried out online and in real time, so if you add a static image, for instance, 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 which the visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be employed with various web programming languages such as PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't have to stick to one particular language to create your site. They work with more than a hundred formats, including the most popular ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so forth.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available and activated as standard on our innovative cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them whatever the Linux hosting plan that you select when you sign up. This will help you set up interactive websites without worrying about any tech restrictions on our end. In case 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 site which engages the visitors in some way, you're able to provide them with a variety of editing options for the photographs that they upload. You can also convert text to images, that gives you a number of opportunities regarding what content you can offer on your website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to run any script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to create charts or work with images, since both are set up and enabled as standard on the cloud hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. In case you upgrade the PHP version for your account, you will not have to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries because they shall be available all the time. Thus, you'll have a lot of options in respect to what attributes you and your website visitors shall be able to use, regardless if you're writing the website code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and install some app that you've found on the Internet. You will be able to take advantage of all sought-after formats for the pictures that you upload.