ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most frequently used graphic software libraries available on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site doable, so they ought to be set up on a web server if you host your websites on it and you want to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are set up, you'll be able to edit any image in many different ways - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etc. However, these adjustments are feasible if the script application which you use on your website permits you to do such things. The 2 libraries can easily be used with various website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etc., and support more than a hundred commonly used image formats which you will be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available and activated as standard on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them whatever the cloud hosting that you select when you sign up. This will help you create interactive sites without worrying about any technical restrictions on our end. In case you have a portfolio website, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures which show your work, while when you have a social network or a similar site that engages the visitors in some way, you'll be able to provide them with a variety of editing solutions for the photographs they upload. You can also convert text to pictures, that will provide you with a number of opportunities regarding what content you will be able to offer on the site.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud web hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated server account will be set up, which means that you can employ the full features of any script app that requires any of these 2 libraries so as to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, image galleries, community forums, and so on. In case you are a website designer, you will be able to write the program code yourself as we also support a lot of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To offer you even more options with regards to what applications 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 are 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 which you can host.