If you want to have dynamic images on your internet site, the web server where you host it ought to have the suitable software for this. As an alternative to using static images with a fixed size, you could have thumbnails and automatically resized images depending on the device a visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images using a script app. All of these things are feasible through ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that could be installed on a hosting server and that work with a large amount of widely used scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. In this way, you could use images with any web-based application you'd like, regardless what language it was developed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will permit you to work with more than one hundred different image formats including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Website Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our advanced cloud hosting platform, therefore regardless of which of our Linux shared website hosting plans you choose, both apps shall be available and enabled by default for your new account. They will be part of the software environment for your sites whatever the PHP version that you choose since we offer several different versions. Any custom or ready-made script application will be able to use the libraries in order to make thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Depending on the type of your site, you can also provide a wide range of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network website and so on.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can run any kind of script application which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate graphs or work with images, since both are set up and enabled as standard on the cloud website hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even though you may switch the PHP version for your account, you won't have to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries because they shall be accessible all of the time. In this way, you have loads of alternatives in respect to what features you and your site visitors will be able to use, regardless if you write the site code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and install some app that you've found on the worldwide web. You're able to use all of the sought-after formats for the pictures which you upload.