ImageMagick and GD are software libraries which should be present on a hosting server to enable images to show up on a specific website. They allow you to carry out various tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so on. These things can certainly be performed online and in real time, so if you add a static image, for instance, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to show up on the website or for the image to be resized automatically with regards to the device and resolution which the website visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD may be employed with many web programming languages such as PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't need to stick to a single language to develop your internet site. They work with over a hundred formats, including the most frequently used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so on.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform, therefore no matter which of our shared hosting services you get, both apps shall be available and activated as standard for your new account. They'll be part of the software setting for your websites irrespective of the PHP version that you select because we supply a number of different versions. Any kind of custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries to make thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Determined by the type of your site, you'll also be able to provide a lot of features for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network website and so on.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated server account shall be created, so you will be able to employ all of the attributes of any script app that requires any of the two libraries to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, image galleries, forums, and many others. In case you are a web developer, you'll be able to write the code yourself because we also support plenty of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To offer you even more options with regards to what applications you will be able to run, we support many different PHP releases - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. GD and ImageMagick shall be enabled for any of them, which means that the software environment on the servers will never limit your choice in terms of the types of websites that you can host.