If you want to have dynamic images on your site, the web server in which you host it ought to 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 depending on the device a visitor uses or you could even flip and invert images using a script app. All of these things are feasible through ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software which may be installed on a web server and that work with a lot of frequently used scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. That way, you can use images with any web-based app you'd like, regardless what language it was created with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will permit you to work with over a hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and so forth.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Web Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our shared web hosting you pick, both apps will be available and activated by default for your new account. They'll be part of the software environment for your sites whatever the PHP version that you pick as we supply a few different versions. Any kind of custom or ready-made script application will be able to use the libraries to make thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Depending on the type of your site, you will also be able to provide various 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 Servers

You'll be able to execute any script app that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to make graphs or work with images, because both are installed and enabled by default on the cloud hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even though you may upgrade the PHP version for your account, you won't need to do anything to re-enable these libraries as they shall be accessible at all times. In this way, you will have many options in respect to what features you and your website visitors can employ, regardless if you are writing the website code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and set up some app which you have discovered on the web. You are able to take advantage of all the widespread formats for the photos which you upload.