If you want to have dynamic images on your website, the server where you host it must have the proper software for this. As opposed 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 through a script application. All these things are feasible through ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software that can be set up on a web server and that work with a lot of frequently used scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. Thus, you may use images with any web-based application you'd like, regardless what language it was created 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 including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and enabled as standard on our innovative cloud web hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them regardless of the Linux cloud hosting that you select when you register. This will help you build multimedia websites without worrying about any sort of tech restrictions on our end. If you own a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while when you've got a social network or a similar website that engages your guests in some way, you will be able to provide them with a number of editing options for the photos they upload. You can also convert text to pictures, that will provide you with quite a lot of opportunities as to what content you will be able to offer on your site.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Since both GD Library and ImageMagick are set up on the cloud hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you won't have any problems to run any sort of script application that requires these libraries to function efficiently. Many apps allow you to work with graphs and images - discussion boards, cms, blog platforms, and many others, so in case you work with such software on our end, you're able to use all of its attributes - automatically generated thumbnails for pictures attached to a forum reply or personalized avatars on a social network site, for example. Both libraries will be available with all PHP versions that you're able to select through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel - 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.