ImageMagick and GD are software libraries which should be present on a hosting server to enable images to appear on a given internet site. They enable you to carry out various tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, etcetera. These things could be carried out online and in real time, so if you add 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 based on the device and resolution that the website visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be employed with various web programming languages such as PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't need to stick to one particular language to build your internet site. They work with more than 100 formats, which includes the most frequently used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and enabled as standard on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them regardless of the Linux cloud hosting package that you select when you register. This will allow you to build multimedia sites without having to worry about any sort of technical restrictions on our end. When you own a portfolio website, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while in case you own a social network or a similar website which engages your visitors in some way, you will be able to offer them a number of editing options for the images which they upload. Also, you can convert text to pictures, which provides you with numerous opportunities regarding what content you're able to offer on the site.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Since both GD Library and ImageMagick are set up on the cloud platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you will not experience any problems to run any kind of script application that requires these libraries to operate efficiently. Numerous apps allow you to use charts and pictures - community forums, cms, blog platforms, etcetera, therefore if you work with such software on our end, you will be able to use all of its attributes - automatically generated thumbnails for images linked to a forum reply or easy to customize avatars on a social network website, for example. Both libraries are available with all PHP releases that you will be able to select from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5.