If you would like to have dynamic images on your internet site, the machine where you host it must have the appropriate software for this. Rather than using static images with a fixed size, you may have thumbnails and automatically resized images dependant upon the device a website visitor uses or you may even flip and invert images via a script application. All of these things are possible through ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that may be set up on a hosting server and that work with a wide range of popular scripting languages such as: Perl, Python and PHP. This way, you can use images with any web-based application you'd like, regardless of the language it was designed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries will allow you to work with over one hundred different image formats including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etcetera.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Web Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our advanced cloud web hosting platform, therefore regardless of which of our Linux shared web hosting you acquire, both applications will be available and enabled by default for your new account. They're a part of the software environment for your sites whatever the PHP version that you choose as we supply a number of different versions. Any kind of custom or ready-made script application can use the libraries to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. According to the nature of your site, you'll also be able to offer lots of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network site and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can execute every script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to create graphs or use images, because both are installed and enabled by default on the cloud website hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even though you may upgrade the PHP version for your account, you will not need to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries because they shall be accessible all of the time. Thus, you'll have many alternatives in respect to what features you and your website visitors will be able to employ, no matter if you're writing the site code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and set up some app that you have discovered on the Internet. You are able to take advantage of all of the sought-after formats for the photos that you upload.