If you would want to have dynamic images on your site, the server in which you host it needs to have the proper software for this. As an alternative to using static images with a fixed size, you may have thumbnails and automatically resized images in accordance with the device a site visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images via a script app. All these things are feasible through ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that can be installed on a web server and which work with a great number of widespread scripting languages such as: Perl, Python and PHP. Thus, you may use images with any web-based app that you would like, regardless of the language it was created with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries shall allow you to work with more than 100 different image formats including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and so on.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and enabled by default on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them irrespective of the cloud hosting that you select when you join us. This will allow you to set up interactive websites without worrying about any technical limitations on our end. In case you own a portfolio website, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while in case you own a social network or a similar website that engages your visitors in some way, you'll be able to provide them with a variety of editing options for the photographs that they upload. You can also convert text to images, which gives you many different opportunities regarding 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 web hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated server account will be generated, therefore you will be able to employ all the attributes of any script app that requires any of the two libraries in order to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, image galleries, user discussion forums, and so on. If you are a web developer, you are able to write the program code yourself as we also support lots of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To give you even more options with regards to what sort of applications you are able to run, we support a number of 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 shall be enabled for any of them, so the software environment on the servers won't restrict your choice in terms of the types of sites that you can host.