ImageMagick and GD are software libraries which should be present on a hosting server to enable images to show up on a specific website. They permit you to carry out different tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, etc. These things can certainly be carried out online and in real time, so if you include a static image, for instance, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to appear on the site or for the image to be resized automatically depending on the device and resolution that the visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be used with a lot of web programming languages such as PHP, Perl and Python, so you do not have to stick to a single language to build your internet site. They work with over 100 formats, which includes the most frequently used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so on.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Website Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and activated by default on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform, so your scripts can use them whatever the cloud website hosting package that you select when you join us. This will help you set up multimedia websites without worrying about any sort of technical limitations on our end. In case you own a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures which show your work, while in case you have a social network or a similar site that engages your guests in some way, you're able to provide them with various editing solutions for the photos they upload. Also, you can convert text to images, that will give you many different opportunities with regards to what content you'll be able to offer on your site.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account will be set up, so you'll be able to take advantage of the full features of any script app that requires any of the two libraries to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, community forums, and many others. If you are a website designer, you're able to write the code yourself because we also support plenty of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To give you even more options with regards to what kind of apps you can run, we support many different 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 will be enabled for any of them, which means that the software environment on the servers will never limit your choice in terms of the types of websites that you can have.