ImageMagick and GD Library

Discover more about ImageMagick and GD Library and discover why they are currently present on almost every web server.

If you would want to have dynamic images on your site, the machine where you host it needs to have the appropriate software for this. Rather than using static images with a fixed size, you can have thumbnails and automatically resized images based on the device a site visitor uses or you could even flip and invert images through a script application. All these things are feasible through ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software which could be installed on a hosting server and which work with a great number of widespread scripting languages like: Perl, Python and PHP. This way, you could use images with any web-based application that you'd like, irrespective of the language it was developed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries will allow you to work with over a hundred different image formats such as GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etcetera.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our Linux cloud hosting you choose, both applications shall be available and enabled as standard for your brand new account. They will be part of the software setting for your websites regardless of the PHP version that you pick because we provide several different releases. Each custom or ready-made script application can use the libraries so as to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. According to the type of your website, you can also offer numerous options for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network website and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account shall be generated, which means that you can employ the full features of any script app that needs any of these two libraries in order to manage images, like Joomla^™, WordPress, photo galleries, forums, and so on. In case you are a web developer, you are able to write the code yourself as we also support lots of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To provide you with even more options with regards to what apps you can run, we support many different PHP versions - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. GD and ImageMagick are enabled for any of them, so the software environment on the servers will not limit your choice in terms of the types of sites which you can host.