ImageMagick and GD Library
Find out more about ImageMagick and GD Library and discover why they are currently present on almost every web server.
If you would like to have dynamic images on your site, the web server in which you host it must have the appropriate software for this. As an alternative to using static images with a fixed size, you can have thumbnails and automatically resized images based on the device a website visitor uses or you may even flip and invert images via a script app. All these things are possible through ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software which could be installed on a web server and which work with a lot of widespread scripting languages like: Perl, Python and PHP. In this way, you could use images with any web-based app you'd like, regardless what language it was created with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries will permit you to work with more than 100 different image formats including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Website Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform, so no matter which of our
Linux website hosting packages you pick, both applications will be available and activated as standard for your brand new account. They'll be part of the software environment for your websites whatever the PHP version that you pick since we provide a number of different releases. Any kind of custom or ready-made script app will be able to use the libraries so as to make thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Determined by the nature of your site, you will also be able to offer quite a lot of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image editing software on a social network site and so on.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud web hosting platform where your new
semi-dedicated server account will be set up, therefore you can employ the full features of any script application which requires any of the two libraries to manage images, such as Joomla
™, WordPress, picture galleries, message boards, and many others. If you are a website designer, you can write the code yourself because we also support lots of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To give you even more options with regards to what kind of apps you'll be able to run, we support a variety 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 each of them, which means that the software environment on our servers will not restrict your choice in terms of the types of websites which you can have.