Board Optimization - [DBTech] vB Optimise 2.0.1 (Lite)

vB Optimise Lite

The newly revamped vB Optimise was created for vBulletin 4, but has now been made compatible for vBulletin 3.8. In this release I have re-coded vB Optimise from the gound and focused stability over features, you'll notice Phrase Caching and vBAdvanced Integration have bit the dust, this is to maintain a sync state between this version and the vBulletin 4 release.

Professional version & feature list available @ www.DragonByte-Tech.com/forum
Priority support for Lite version is handled at the Developers Website.


What does it do?

vB Optimise is intended to optimise vBulletin software by integrating several PHP "cachers" and handling data before vBulletin. This works by encountering and handling data prior to vBulletin in order to skip the arbitary execution that would be more server intensive.

Real-Life Statistics

We've teamed up with some Big Forums to show you the impact of vB Optimise, you can view this public chart which shows both our statistics and theirs:

View Public vB Optimise Resource Statistics

Features

• Supported Extensions
  • APC
  • eAccelerator
  • Memcache
  • XCache
  • WinCache
  • Filecache
• Style Cacher
  Caches style data to globally reduce a query within all vBulletin forum-based pages.
• Template Cacher
  Caches template data to globally reduce a query within all vBulletin forum-based pages.
• Datastore Cacher
  Forces custom datastore items from modifications (including those from vB's blogs) to use your configured Datastore Cache method instead of being forced into the database. This reduces page queries by where affected.
• vB CMS Template Caching
  (Automatic) Corrects many uncached templates within vB CMS to reduce upto 20+ queries on CMS pages (number varies based on content).
• Optimal Settings Check
  Provides a quick interface to identify possible settings which can be changed on your forum for further optimisation.
• Self-System Tester
  Provides a relatively straight-forward system check to ensure your vB Optimise installation works fully.
• Automatic Cache Flusher
  Automatically flushes cache within the Admin CP based on specific triggers to make sure content does not remain stale on your forum.
• XCache Authentification
  Supports XCache Admin Authentification by allowing you specify the username/password in a configuration if needs be.

Features - Pro

• Notices Cacher
  Caches users dismissed notices to reduce a near-global query within all vBulletin forum-based pages.
• Showgroups Cacher
  Caches the showgroups query which becomes more intensive as your user-base grows.
• Forum Display Query Enhancement
  Enhances a stock vBulletin query within Forum Display to speed up the page.
• Forum Home WOL Cache
  Caches Forum Home "Who's Online" to remove an intensive query and allow larger sites to display this data without impact.
• vB Cache Override (Feature not available on vBulletin 3)
  Ability to override vBulletins new built-in database cacher for the CMS / Forum Sidebar Blocks to remove anything from 1 to 20+ queries based on your content.
• 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.
• Statistical Resource Savings
  Ability to see just exactly how many queries per day vB Optimise has saved your database. You'll be surprised at the numbers.
• Forum Resource Statistic
  Shows off vB Optimise resource saving statistics directly within forumhome statistics.
• ....and more!

Release Notes

If you've used vB Optimise before you'll be aware the previous version had phrase caching, however this caused complications with the way phrases are used within vBulletin so it has not been ported over at this time.


Available Translations
v1.6.0 French - Thanks to finereader

Change Log

[>>] Version 2.0.1
New launch for vB 3.8

[>>] Version 1.6.1
Automatic Cache Flusher has additional parameters to make sure no data is stale
Resolved Bug: Potential PHP error when using eAccelerator which cannot flush within Admin CP on certain actions

[>>] Version 1.6.0
New OpCode Cacher Support: WinCache

[>>] Version 1.5.0
Resolved Bug: Style cache may have fetched ID 0 instead of correct file
Resolved Bug: Filecache permissions may not have worked
Optimisation: Re-wrote some base code to enhance operations.

[>>] Version 1.0.1
Added XCache Authentification Support
Added Filecache Support

Support

Priority support will be handled at DBTech.

FAQ

Q: I have WinCache installed, but vB Optimise tells me it's not?
A: WinCache only introduced OpCode support in version 1.1, if you're using version 1.0.x you will need to upgrade.

Q: I'm using the XCache method, flushing doesn't work?
A: If you have XCache authentification, turn the admin option on within vB Optimise Settings, then edit ./vboptimise/config.php and specify your XCache username/password. Alternatively you can disable XCache authentification within php.ini:

xcache.admin.enable_auth = Off

Q: I have eAccelerator installed, but vB Optimise tells me it's not?
A: eAccelerator does not provide the caching extension by default, you will need to recompile PHP with additional flags. For more information read eAccelerator documentation located here: http://eaccelerator.net/wiki/CompileConfiguration (Specifically look at: with-eaccelerator-shared-memory)

[matthewhotdude]

67 Queries with 69 without is that about right?

After which, your forums footer will now display debug information (it isn't a security threat of any kind, so no harm in normal users seeing this for a short while). Within the debug information there's a drop down listing messages, within that you should see several entries which start with "vB Optimise: ......", read those, if you continually see that vB Optimise is fetching and caching then it means the caching is failing, but if you see vB Optimise only fetching then it would be working.

With that couldnt tell what I was looking for

[Deceptor]

Yes, the 2 query reduction is coming from templates and styles. But 67 queries is still extremely heavy, on a default vB install vB Optimise reduces queries on forum homepage to 4.

See the drop down menu for the messages, it's at the very bottom of your footer titled "Messages:".

[matthewhotdude]

there are a lot of "uncached templates"

Wonder why mine is so high anyway

[Sayid]

Sayid - That's vBulletin reporting an error, and that's vBulletins filecache not vB Optimise. I'd check with vB support.

Custom Datastore Cache option is Still off .

have you discovered the reason please ?

[Deceptor]

matthew - Uncached templates means bad code really, some mods you're using are not caching the templates required.

Sayid - Custom Datastore Cache is a vB Optimise option, the error you're reporting is not related to vB Optimise.

[matthewhotdude]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

matthew - Uncached templates means bad code really, some mods you're using are not caching the templates required.

Sayid - Custom Datastore Cache is a vB Optimise option, the error you're reporting is not related to vB Optimise.

I Just went on a site to "validate my template" look at the results http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0


Have no idea how to sort it

[Deceptor]

That site simply runs your forum through XHTML/HTML validation, that is not related to Uncached Templates. To resolve uncached templates, you'll need to find out which uncached templates are related to the mods on your forum, then contact the mod authors.

[matthewhotdude]

uncached template forumhome_forumbit_level2_post returning default icon

Thats what they all say... I know a long shot but any clues? and would this be effecting performance?

[Deceptor]

forumhome_forumbit_level2_post is a default template. Are all templates uncached?

[matthewhotdude]

It's just that one repeated loads of times and one thats

Level1_no post returning poll icon