ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that ought to be present on a web server in order for images to show up on a given internet site. They allow you to execute various tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so forth. These things could be performed online and in real time, so if you add a static image, for instance, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to show up on the site 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 need to stick to just one language to build your website. They work with over one hundred formats, including the most widespread ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so forth.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Website Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our advanced cloud web hosting platform, so regardless of which of our website hosting plans you purchase, both apps will be available and enabled as standard for your new account. They will be part of the software setting for your sites irrespective of the PHP version that you select since we offer several different releases. Each custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Based on the type of your website, you can also provide quite a lot of options for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network website and many others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
As both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on the cloud platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you won't have any problems to run any script app that requires these libraries in order to function effectively. Lots of apps allow you to use charts and pictures - forums, cms, blog platforms, etcetera, thus in case you use such software on our end, you're able to use all of its options - automatically generated thumbnails for images linked to a forum reply or easy to customize avatars on a social network website, for example. Both libraries are provided with all of the PHP releases which you will be able to select from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2.