If you want to have dynamic images on your website, the server in which you host it ought to have the proper software for this. As opposed to using static images with a fixed size, you could have thumbnails and automatically resized images dependant upon the device a site visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images using a script application. All of these things are possible with ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software that may be installed on a server and which work with a great number of widespread scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. Thus, you may use images with any web-based application that you'd like, no matter what language it was designed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries will allow you to work with over 100 different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and so on.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Website Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and enabled by default on our innovative cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them irrespective of the Linux website hosting that you select when you register. This will allow you to create interactive sites without having to worry about any technical limitations on our end. When you have a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures that show your work, while if you own a social network or a similar website which engages the guests in some way, you're able to provide them with a variety of editing solutions for the photos that they upload. Also, you can convert text to images, which gives you quite a lot of opportunities regarding what content you will be able to offer on the site.

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 shall be set up, which means that you can take advantage of the full features of any script app which needs any of the two libraries in order to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, message boards, and the like. If you are a website designer, you'll be able to write the program code yourself since we also support a number of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To supply you with even more options with regards to what sort of apps you can run, we support several different PHP versions - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. GD and ImageMagick will be enabled for any of them, so the software environment on the servers will not limit your choice in terms of the types of sites that you can host.