If you would want to have dynamic images on your website, the server in which you host it should have the appropriate software for this. As an alternative to using static images with a fixed size, you could have thumbnails and automatically resized images dependant upon the device a site visitor uses or you could even flip and invert images using a script application. All these things are possible through ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that can be set up on a hosting server and that work with a great number of frequently used scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. In this way, you could use images with any web-based app that you would like, irrespective of the language it was designed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries will enable you to work with more than one hundred different image formats including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and so on.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Website Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and activated by default on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform, so your scripts can use them whatever the cloud website hosting plan that you select when you join us. This will allow you to build multimedia websites without worrying about any technical restrictions on our end. In case you have a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while if you own a social network or a similar website which engages the guests in some way, you will be able to provide them with a number of editing options for the photos which they upload. Also, you can convert text to pictures, which will provide you with numerous opportunities as to what content you're able to offer on your website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud web hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account will be generated, which means that you will be able to employ all the features of any script application which requires any of these 2 libraries to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, picture galleries, discussion forums, and many others. If you are a web developer, you're able to write the code yourself since we also support a lot of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To give you even more options with regards to what kind of applications 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, so the software environment on our servers will not restrict your choice in terms of the types of sites which you can have.