ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that ought to be present on a hosting server to enable images to appear on a specific internet site. They allow you to perform different tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so on. These things could be carried out online and in real time, so if you include a static image, for instance, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to appear on the website or for the image to be resized automatically with regards to the device and resolution that the visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD may be used with various web programming languages like PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't have to stick to one particular language to develop your internet site. They work with over a hundred formats, which includes the most widely used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so forth.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library can be found and activated as standard on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so your scripts can use them irrespective of the Linux web hosting that you select when you register. This will allow you to set up multimedia websites without having to worry about any sort of tech limitations on our end. In case you own a portfolio website, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures which show your work, while if you own a social network or a similar site that engages your visitors in some way, you'll be able to provide them with a number of editing options for the images they upload. In addition, you can convert text to pictures, that gives you a number of opportunities with regards to what content you can offer on the site.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
Because both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on the cloud hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you won't experience any kind of problems to run any sort of script app that needs these libraries in order to work efficiently. Many applications allow you to work with graphs and pictures - discussion boards, cms, blog platforms, and many others, which means that when you work with such software on our end, you will be able to use all of its options - automatically generated thumbnails for pictures linked to a forum reply or easy to customize avatars on a social network site, for example. Both libraries will be available with all the PHP releases that you can select from the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5.