If you would like to have dynamic images on your website, the server in which you host it must have the correct software for this. Rather than using static images with a fixed size, you can have thumbnails and automatically resized images in accordance with the device a website visitor uses or you may even flip and invert images through a script app. All of these things are doable with ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software which can be installed on a web server and that work with a large amount of widespread scripting languages such as: Perl, Python and PHP. That way, you may use images with any web-based application 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 more than a hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and so on.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our shared hosting plans you pick, both applications shall be available and enabled as standard for your new account. They're part of the software environment for your websites regardless of the PHP version that you choose since we provide several different releases. Each custom or ready-made script app will be able to use the libraries so as to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Based on the type of your site, you'll also be able to provide quite a lot of features for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image editing software on a social network site and many others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to execute any script app which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to create graphs or work with images, because both are set up and enabled by default on the cloud website hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. In case you switch the PHP version for your account, you will not need to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries because they'll be available at all times. Thus, you've got plenty of options in respect to what features both you and your website visitors will be able to employ, regardless if you write the website code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and install some app that you have discovered on the Internet. You'll be able to take advantage of all sought-after formats for the pictures that you upload.