If you would like to have dynamic images on your site, the server where you host it should have the correct software for this. Instead of using static images with a fixed size, you could have thumbnails and automatically resized images dependant upon the device a site visitor uses or you could even flip and invert images through a script app. All these things are possible through ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software which may be installed on a hosting server and that work with a great number of widespread scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. In this way, you could use images with any web-based app that you'd like, regardless what language it was designed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries shall allow you to work with over one hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library can be found and activated as standard on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform, so your scripts will be able to use them whatever the Linux web hosting service that you select when you sign up. This will help you set up interactive sites without having to worry about any technical restrictions on our end. In case you have a portfolio website, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while if you have a social network or a similar website which engages your visitors in some way, you will be able to provide them with a number of editing solutions for the images that they upload. In addition, you can convert text to images, which will provide you with numerous opportunities regarding what content you will be able to offer on your website.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
Since 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 kind of problems to run any sort of script app which requires these libraries to function properly. Many apps allow you to use charts and images - forums, content management systems, blog platforms, etcetera, which means that when you employ such software on our end, you can use all of its functions - automatically generated thumbnails for pictures linked to a forum reply or easy to customize avatars on a social network site, for example. The two libraries are provided with all the PHP versions that you'll 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.