ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widespread graphic software libraries on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on an internet site doable, so they ought to be present 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 installed, you'll be able to edit any image in a variety of ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so forth. Naturally, these modifications are possible if the script application which you employ on your site enables you to perform such things. The 2 libraries can be used with many programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etc., and support over a hundred popular image formats which you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and activated as standard on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them regardless of the Linux web hosting package that you select when you register. This will help you set up multimedia websites without having to worry about any technical restrictions on our end. If you have a portfolio website, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while if you own a social network or a similar site which engages the guests in some way, you're able to provide them with various editing solutions for the pictures they upload. You can also convert text to pictures, that will give you numerous opportunities regarding what content you're able to offer on your website.

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 will be generated, therefore you'll be able to employ all of the attributes of any script app that needs any of these 2 libraries so as to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, message boards, and many others. In case you are a website designer, you can write the program code yourself because we also support a lot of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To give you even more options with regards to what sort of apps you can run, we support a number of different PHP versions - 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 our servers won't restrict your choice in terms of the types of websites which you can host.