If you want to have dynamic images on your internet site, the machine in which you host it ought to have the appropriate software for this. Instead of using static images with a fixed size, you could have thumbnails and automatically resized images depending on the device a site visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images using a script application. All these things are doable with ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software which could be set up on a web server and which work with a great number of widely used scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. In this way, you can use images with any web-based application that you'd like, regardless what language it was designed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries will allow you to work with more than one hundred different image formats such as GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and activated by default on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform, so your scripts can use them irrespective of the Linux web hosting service that you select when you sign up. This will allow you to create multimedia sites without having to worry about any tech restrictions on our end. When you own a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures that show your work, while in case you have a social network or a similar site which engages your guests in some way, you can offer them a variety of editing options for the photographs which they upload. Also, you can convert text to pictures, that will provide you with many different opportunities regarding what content you are able to offer on your site.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

Since both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on the cloud platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you won't have any kind of problems to run any sort of script application which needs these libraries to operate efficiently. Numerous apps allow you to use charts and images - community forums, cms, blog platforms, etcetera, which means that if you employ such software on our end, you are able to use all of its functions - automatically generated thumbnails for pictures attached to a forum reply or personalized avatars on a social network website, for example. Both libraries will be available with all of the PHP releases that you will be able to select from the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5.