If you would like to have dynamic images on your website, the machine where you host it must have the appropriate software for that. Rather than 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 could even flip and invert images using a script application. All these things are feasible with ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software which may be installed on a server and which work with a wide range of widely used scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. Thus, you can use images with any web-based app you'd like, irrespective of the language it was developed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will enable you to work with over a hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and so forth.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform, so no matter which of our Linux cloud hosting you acquire, both apps shall be available and enabled as standard for your new account. They will be a part of the software environment for your websites regardless of the PHP version that you pick since we provide a few different versions. Any kind of custom or ready-made script application can use the libraries to make thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Based on the nature of your site, you'll also be able to provide a wide range of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network website and so on.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can run every script app which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to create graphs or use images, since both are set up and activated as standard on the cloud website hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. In case you change the PHP version for your account, you will not need to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries because they'll be accessible all the time. In this way, you have lots of alternatives in respect to what functions you and your website visitors shall be able to use, no matter if you're writing the website code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and install some application which you've discovered on the worldwide web. You're able to employ all the sought-after formats for the pictures which you upload.