ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that ought to be present on a hosting server to enable images to show up on a particular website. They permit you to carry out various tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so forth. These things can easily be performed online and in real time, so if you include 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 depending upon the device and resolution which the visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be used with lots of web programming languages like PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't have to stick to only one language to develop your internet site. They work with more than 100 formats, which includes the most widespread ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so forth.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our advanced cloud web hosting platform, therefore regardless of which of our hosting plans you obtain, both apps shall be available and enabled as standard for your new account. They will be a part of the software environment for your websites regardless of the PHP version that you select because we provide a few different releases. Any custom or ready-made script application can use the libraries in order to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. According to the nature of your site, you will also be able to offer a lot of features for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image modifying software on a social network site and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud web hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account shall be created, which means that you can use all of the attributes of any script application that requires any of the two libraries to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, picture galleries, message boards, and the like. In case you are a web developer, you are able to write the code yourself as we also support a number of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To offer you even more options with regards to what sort of apps you'll be able to run, we support a number of different PHP versions - 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 shall be enabled for any of them, which means that the software environment on our servers will not restrict your choice in terms of the types of websites that you can host.