ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most frequently used graphic software libraries available. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a website feasible, so they must be set up on a server if you host your internet sites on it and you would like to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are installed, you shall be able to edit any image in a variety of ways - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. Naturally, these changes are possible if the script app which you use on your website allows you to carry out such things. The two libraries could be used with a lot of web development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etcetera., and support more than one hundred frequently used image formats that you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting
All shared plans which we provide are generated on our advanced cloud platform and due to the fact that both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on it, your script applications will be able to use these software suites any time. The libraries are available with all the PHP versions that we provide because we support PHP 4 and a couple of versions of PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8. Regardless if you employ a custom-made script, one of the applications that you'll be able to install from the Hepsia Control Panel or a third-party application that you find online, you are able to build feature-rich multi-media sites, for example image galleries or socially-oriented portals where both you and your users can work with charts and images in real time provided the script has such functionality.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to run every script app which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate charts or use images, as both are installed and activated as standard on the cloud hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. In case you upgrade the PHP version for your account, you will not need to do anything to re-enable these libraries as they will be accessible at all times. In this way, you'll have loads of alternatives in respect to what functions both you and your site visitors shall be able to use, regardless if you write the website code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and install some app which you've discovered on the web. You can take advantage of all the popular formats for the pictures that you upload.