ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that should be present on a hosting server in order for images to show up on a particular website. They enable you to carry out different tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, etc. These things could be done 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 depending upon the device and resolution the site visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD may be employed with a lot of web programming languages such as PHP, Perl and Python, so you do not need to stick to one particular language to create your internet site. They work with over 100 formats, including the most widely used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so on.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and activated as standard on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them irrespective of the web hosting that you select when you sign up. This will help you set up interactive sites without worrying about any sort of tech limitations on our end. When you own a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while when you have a social network or a similar website that engages your guests in some way, you will be able to provide them with various editing solutions for the photos that they upload. In addition, you can convert text to pictures, that gives you various opportunities with regards to what content you will be able to offer on your website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to run every script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to make charts or use images, because both are installed and enabled as standard on the cloud web hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you switch the PHP version for your account, you will not need to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries as they will be available all of the time. This way, you have a lot of options in respect to what features you and your website visitors can employ, regardless if you're writing the website code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and install some application that you've found on the worldwide web. You will be able to employ all of the widespread formats for the images which you upload.