ImageMagick and GD Library
Discover more about ImageMagick and GD Library to find out why they are now present on almost every single server.
ImageMagick and GD are software libraries which should be present on a server in order for images to appear on a certain website. They enable you to perform different tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so forth. These things could be performed online and in real time, so if you include a static image, for example, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to appear on the website or for the image to be resized automatically depending on the device and resolution the visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be used with lots of web programming languages such as PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't have to stick to just one language to create your website. They work with more than 100 formats, which includes the most frequently used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so on.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and activated as standard on our innovative cloud website hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them irrespective of the
Linux web hosting that you select when you sign up. This will allow you to build multimedia sites without having to worry about any sort of technical restrictions on our end. In case you own a portfolio website, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while when you have a social network or a similar site which engages your visitors in some way, you'll be able to provide them with a number of editing solutions for the photos that they upload. In addition, you can convert text to pictures, that will provide you with lots of opportunities with regards to what content you are able to offer on the website.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud hosting platform where your brand new
semi-dedicated server account will be created, so you can employ all the features of any script app which needs any of these two libraries so as to manage images, such as Joomla
™, WordPress, image galleries, message boards, and the like. If you are a web developer, you can write the code yourself as we also support a lot of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To provide you with even more options with regards to what sort of applications you're able to run, we support many different PHP releases - 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 will be enabled for each of them, so the software environment on our servers will not limit your choice in terms of the types of websites which you can have.
