If you want to have dynamic images on your site, the web server where you host it needs to have the correct 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 website visitor uses or you may even flip and invert images using 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 including: Perl, Python and PHP. This way, you can use images with any web-based application you want, regardless what language it was designed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries shall allow you to work with more than one hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our advanced cloud hosting platform, which means that regardless of which of our shared hosting you purchase, both applications will be available and enabled by default for your brand new account. They will be a part of the software environment for your sites irrespective of the PHP version that you pick because we supply a few different versions. Every custom or ready-made script app will be able to use the libraries so as to make thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Based on the type of your site, you'll also be able to offer many different features for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network website and many others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account will be generated, therefore you can employ all of the features of any script app which requires any of these 2 libraries to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, user discussion forums, and many others. In case you are a website designer, you are able to write the program code yourself because we also support a number of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To supply you with even more options with regards to what kind of apps you will be able to run, we support a number of 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 are enabled for all of them, so the software environment on the servers won't restrict your choice in terms of the types of websites that you can have.