If you want to have dynamic images on your internet site, the web server where you host it ought to have the proper software for that. Instead of using static images with a fixed size, you may have thumbnails and automatically resized images based on the device a website visitor uses or you may even flip and invert images using a script app. All of these things are possible through ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software that may be installed on a server and that work with a great number of popular scripting languages such as: Perl, Python and PHP. In this way, you could use images with any web-based app you want, regardless of the language it was developed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will 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 activated by default on our innovative cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them irrespective of the Linux cloud hosting that you select when you join us. This will allow you to set up multimedia sites without worrying about any sort of tech restrictions on our end. When you own a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures which show your work, while when you own a social network or a similar site which engages your visitors in some way, you'll be able to offer them a number of editing solutions for the images they upload. Also, you can convert text to images, that provides you with various opportunities regarding what content you will be able to offer on the website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can run any script app that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to make charts or work with images, as both are set up and activated by default on the cloud website hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. In case you change the PHP version for your account, you won't need to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries as they will be available at all times. In this way, you've got lots of options in respect to what features both you and your site visitors can employ, no matter if you are writing the website code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and install some application which you have found on the Internet. You are able to take advantage of all of the widespread formats for the photos which you upload.