This plugin seems to not allow me to save changes in the backend as far as plugins go, but I could disable it and make the changes. So I updated to 2.5 and now I can't disable or uninstall it or make changes to it's setting to enable xCache authentication or even shut it off. It also seems if I manually remove the files my site just has white screens front end and back end.

Any advice?

Add to config.php directly beneath <?php then you can correct the configuration issues :)


Fillip

Thank you, that allowed me to make changes.

A little follow up. I finally decided to uninstall and re-install and it is working now. In just 2+ days I now see:

I haven't noticed any positive difference in performance but I have to assume that 2 million saved queries is doing something positive. :)

It won't really provide a noticeable difference in performance unless you have a very high concurrent users count, I'm glad you got it working :)


Fillip

It's actually been slower, but perhaps it is a coincidence? I just got an email from one of my moderators (who didn't know I installed this):

"The site has been running very slow for me today. Is that just on my end or have you noticed also? Other sites seem to work fine. I'm also using Chrome."

I may have to disable to see if it makes any difference.

It could be, we have had no reports of vB Optimise slowing down page loads before :)


Fillip

My forum has indeed been very bogged down since installing, but we did have some pretty high traffic so it seems that would be more likely the reason. Optimise has saved us 4.4 million queries in just a few days.

I see this feature in the Pro version:

Full Guest Caching
Ability to cache entire pages and serve them saving not only hundreds of queries but upto 90% of CPU processing towards Guests.

This may be what I'm looking for since a lot of our visitors are guests. If 75% of our visitors are guests, would you be confident that this "90%" savings in CPU usage from guests would be our solution? I'm looking to upgrade the server but considering trying this first. Although the server upgrade might be cheaper. :)

There's zero way for me to confidently say one way or the other, but I do know that if the majority of your users are guests then you would see a major increase in performance relative to the guest:member ratio :)


Fillip

Can someone please help me?

Getting this error after converting to CloudLinux (confirmed its APC though, since sites work after I remove APC info from php.ini)

PHP.ini had this:

PHP -V Output:

thank you!

Try deleting all vB Optimise files (might want to uninstall it first), including old files (i.e. the vboptimise directory that's not inside the dbtech directory) and re-install.

I've no idea why it would try to re-declare that class...


Fillip

I am getting this error when I tried selecting eAccelerator as the cache operator.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

The problem is that eAccelerator is installed and is working fine on my server.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Is there anything I could do? Or I am stuck with File cache? Thanks.

Due to no shared caching feature in Eaccelator 9.6.1, I have decided to try Xcache instead and now get this error:

Warning: xcache_get() [function.xcache-get]: XCache var cache was not initialized properly. Check php log for actual reason in [path]/dbtech/vboptimise/includes/operators/xcache.php on line 21

You'll need to contact your host regarding that one, I've never ran into that one before so I can't help, sorry :(

It's a problem with the way XCache is set up on the server, not with vBO.


Fillip

I am very interested in this plugin simply for the CDN integration. I have done a lot of other manual optimizing, but the CDN integration is the one I am after.

Here are some questions:

I am going to use Rackspace Cloud Files. Will this plugin automatically upload the files from my server to the Cloud Files? Obviously I will need to create a bucket and change the cname, but I am wondering if I will have to manually upload the files to the CDN.

Will this store all attachments, images, css, js to the CDN? Will there be proper expires headers, etc?

I am familiar with Wordpress and have used W3Total Cache many times. It is a great plugin and really works well with Cloud Files. Will this plugin have a similar experience as far as integrating with Cloud Files and uploading new content?

Looks like your host is using suPHP, you will have to run DSO to make this work.
Contact your host and ask them if they can do this for you.

See this chart: http://www.thecpaneladmin.com/wp-con...phandlers2.png

Via the Origin Push/Pull method, yeah :)

Attachments no, everything else yes.


Fillip

Why am I forced to have 3 links on every page of my website if I pay $100 for the plugin?

I have to pay an extra $100 to remove the branding? $200 total? Thats a little ridiculous for removing links/ads.

There are 2 links in the pro version, not 3, both to dragonbyte-tech.com. We cannot discuss the pro version here on vb.org, but we are aware not all sites will be able/willing to pay for the pro modification etc, which is why we put out a 100% free lite version. In addition we don't force anyone to use our products, it's completely optional :).

Iain

Because the $100 for the plugin itself is for the work that went into creating the plugin :)

vBulletin / Internet Brands charge you $170 for a Branding Free licence for your forum.
vBSEO charges you $117.

Having branding increases traffic to our site, driving sales and helps us to provide even more awesome products.

Even if 1 in every 10k visitors to your site is actually a forum owner themselves (either in the present or in the future) and would be interested in our products, that's still 1 lost sale.
If we then assume that your site gets 100k visitors, that's 10 lost sales.

10 lost vB Optimise sales equates to $1000, which when compared to a $100 Branding Free licence is actually a pretty bad business deal for us :)

Hopefully that makes it clearer why we put branding in our mods, and why we charge such a high fee to remove it :)


Fillip

Enabled debugging and noticed these errors

First of all, those aren't errors, they're just incorrect API calls that vB silently discarded.

Secondly, they're not related to vB Optimise, as I don't believe that mod ever fetches forum permissions at all :)


Fillip

What is the affect on server memory when caching? I run a big board with a unique situation that I am trying to solve without spending a bizillion a month on hosting. In a nut shell most of the time I have 300 - 400 users online and they make 3200 - 4000 post a day. 13 days a year I have around 600 - 800 online and for about 5 hours they make about 2000 post a hour. This is causing my memory to fill up while the processor is processing the request.

I doubt vB Optimise will help you with memory usage - in fact, most opcode cachers are designed to steal MORE memory in order to avoid hitting the CPU for re-running PHP scripts.

You might be best off getting a Memcache server on a separate machine, and also stuff your MySQL on that second server :)


Fillip

Would this mod be necessary if your using nginx?

Does the lite version not support caching templates from guests?
i dont undestand this.

Nginx doesn't deal with opcode caching so yeah, it still has an effect :)

Guest caching is a Pro-only feature :)


Fillip

When i run test it gives one error which is

That means your chosen opcache operator isn't working correctly as it's unable to store data - you should contact your host :)


Fillip

i am using memcache and one more thing
Save Avatars as Files and Save Attachments as Files also not working while there is a Tick option in the vB Optimise: Optimal Settings Check

For these i have created a folder on my root like this
attachment/attachments
attachment/avatars
attachment/profilepics
attachment/signaturepics

but after doing this my previous avatar and profile pics also not working nor i am able to upload a new one :(

i am getting this error when i run system test in vb optimize.

any help?

You've posted the same question in all 3 vB Optimise threads, we cannot help you when we don't know what version you're running.

Fillip

i told you that it was mistakenly done i came after googling it but when i saw in my installed mods its [DBTech] vB Optimise v2 (vB4) and also in my download folder in my pc and i have already edited my posts on these

for the proof i am attaching a screenshot for you and mistakes are always done by humans buddy.

That's a vBulletin feature, not a part of vB Optimise.

You need to contact your host, as per the error message your opcode cacher is not working.


Fillip

I have 2.0.1 (Lite) installed and I'm wondering if I should update to 2.5. I don't use DB's thanks or tag hacks and I don't really care if the stats are displayed or not :D

I'm also wondering if using Xcache would be more efficient than Filecache on a VPS. My previous host wouldn't allow Xcache to be installed so I had to use Filecache, but now I'm on a vps and can install Xcache if I want :)

You should install xcache. You'll definitely see a big improvement over filecache

XCache can cache more than just the vBulletin stuff, so it's definitely a boon to have that compared to Filecache, since XCache works with your RAM rather than your disk I/O :)


Fillip

I have xCache installed just to accelerate PHP. For the forum itself I memcache. They seem to work together brilliantly.