ImageMagick and GD Library
Discover more about ImageMagick and GD Library to find out why they're currently present on almost every single web server.
ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most popular graphic software libraries nowadays. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site possible, so they need to be installed on a web server if you host your sites on it and you would want to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are present, you shall be able to edit any image in various ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so on. Of course, these modifications are feasible if the script application that you employ on your internet site enables you to carry out such things. The two libraries can easily be used with numerous web development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etcetera., and support over one hundred popular image formats that you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many others.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our advanced cloud website hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our
Linux cloud hosting you obtain, both applications shall be available and activated as standard for your new account. They're a part of the software setting for your websites regardless of the PHP version that you pick because we provide a number of different versions. Every custom or ready-made script app will be able to use the libraries in order to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Determined by the type of your site, you will also be able to provide quite a lot of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image editing software on a social network website and many others.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
Since both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on the cloud hosting platform where all
semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you will not experience any kind of problems to run any sort of script app that requires these libraries to work effectively. A lot of applications allow you to work with graphs and images - forums, cms, blog platforms, etc, thus in case you use such software on our end, you're able to use all of its attributes - automatically generated thumbnails for pictures linked to a forum reply or customizable avatars on a social network website, for example. The two libraries will be available with all PHP versions that you will be able to select from the Hepsia web 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.