If you would want to have dynamic images on your website, the server where you host it ought to have the correct software for this. As opposed to using static images with a fixed size, you could have thumbnails and automatically resized images in accordance with the device a site visitor uses or you may even flip and invert images via a script app. All of these things are doable via ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software which may be set up on a web server and which work with a great number of widespread scripting languages such as: Perl, Python and PHP. This way, you could use images with any web-based application that you'd like, regardless of the language it was created with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will enable you to work with over one hundred different image formats such as GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Website Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are present on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform, therefore no matter which of our Linux cloud website hosting you choose, both applications shall be available and enabled by default for your new account. They'll be part of the software environment for your sites irrespective of the PHP version that you pick since we offer a number of different versions. Every custom or ready-made script application can use the libraries in order to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Depending on the type of your site, you'll also be able to provide a wide range of options for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network website and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account will be set up, so you will be able to take advantage of all the features of any script application which needs any of the two libraries in order to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, user discussion forums, and many others. In case you are a web developer, you will be able to write the program code yourself since we also support plenty of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To give you even more options with regards to what sort of applications you will be able to run, we support a number of PHP releases - 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 all of them, so the software environment on our servers will never restrict your choice in terms of the types of websites that you can host.