ImageMagick and GD Library
What's ImageMagick employed for? What is the GD Library? What lies behind their global recognition?
ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that need to be present on a hosting server in order for images to show up on a certain internet site. They enable you to carry out a variety of tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, etc. These things could be done online and in real time, so if you add a static image, for example, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to appear on the internet site or for the image to be resized automatically depending upon the device and resolution that the visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD may be employed with a lot of web programming languages like PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't need to stick to just one language to develop your site. They work with more than 100 formats, which includes the most widespread ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so forth.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting
Our in-house made cloud server platform provides the optimal software environment for your sites whatever the content that you wish to have. Galleries and any other kinds of sites that work with images and charts are not an exception since ImageMagick and GD Library are available with all the
Linux web hosting that we offer. Your account will be set up on our cloud hosting platform and regardless of which PHP version you want to use (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), both the libraries will always be enabled by default, not on demand. Provided that the script application that you are using offers such capabilities, you will be able to use images from the admin section, while your site visitors shall be able to do this using the front end of the website.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to run any script app that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate graphs or use images, as both are installed and enabled as standard on the cloud web hosting platform where all
semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even though you may upgrade the PHP version for your account, you will not have to do anything to re-enable these libraries as they will be available at all times. In this way, you will have loads of alternatives in respect to what functions both you and your site visitors shall be able to use, no matter if you're writing the site code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and set up some application that you've found on the worldwide web. You can take advantage of all widespread formats for the images which you upload.