If you would like to have dynamic images on your website, the machine where you host it needs to have the appropriate software for that. As an alternative to using static images with a fixed size, you could have thumbnails and automatically resized images based on the device a visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images through a script application. All these things are feasible through ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that may be set up on a hosting server and which work with a lot of widely used scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. That way, you can use images with any web-based application you want, regardless of the language it was developed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries shall allow you to work with over one hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etcetera.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available and activated by default on our innovative cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them whatever the Linux shared plan that you select when you sign up. This will help you set up interactive sites without having to worry about any technical limitations on our end. In case you own a portfolio website, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while if you've got a social network or a similar website which engages your guests in some way, you'll be able to provide them with a variety of editing solutions for the pictures they upload. In addition, you can convert text to images, which will provide you with many different opportunities as to what content you can offer on your website.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud web hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account will be created, therefore you will be able to take advantage of the full features of any script app which requires any of these two libraries to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, image galleries, user discussion forums, and many others. In case you are a website designer, you're able to write the code yourself since we also support lots of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To supply you with even more options with regards to what apps you'll be able to run, we support a variety of PHP versions - 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. GD and ImageMagick are enabled for all of them, so the software environment on the servers won't restrict your choice in terms of the types of sites which you can host.