If you would like to have dynamic images on your internet site, the web server where you host it should have the correct 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 could even flip and invert images via a script application. All of these things are doable with ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software which may be set up on a server and that work with a lot of widespread scripting languages like: Perl, Python and PHP. In this way, you could use images with any web-based app that you would like, regardless of the language it was developed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries shall allow you to work with over 100 different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform, therefore no matter which of our Linux web hosting you buy, both applications will be available and enabled by default for your new account. They are part of the software environment for your sites irrespective of the PHP version that you choose as we supply a number of different versions. Any kind of custom or ready-made script application can use the libraries to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Determined by the nature of your site, you can also provide a lot of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network site and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to execute every script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate graphs or use images, because both are set up and activated by default on the cloud web hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you switch the PHP version for your account, you will not have to do anything to re-enable these libraries as they'll be accessible all of the time. Thus, you have a number of alternatives in respect to what features both you and your site visitors will be able to employ, regardless if you are writing the website code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and set up some application that you have found on the web. You can use all the popular formats for the photos that you upload.