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)

[Ross L]

Flushing cache doesn't seem to work with Xcache installed. It just hangs. Also uninstalling when using Xcache installed just hangs, which then leaves the site CSS-less. Also editing themes just hangs.

To uninstall it, I had to go to AdminCP > vB Optimise and select "no" on all options and then save it. Then uninstall it as usual, so that it didn't affect the site design.

I've had to remove it due to the issues with it.

[vktechnology]

I have large board nearry 2 million posts and 250,000 members
This plugin help to reduce alots of server load

[HappyFeet]

I can physically see the increase in speed. Load dropped just as stated. Very nice... Many Thanks!:up:

[cash7c3]

All sorted. Lets just say that was a fun night :/

Our 3 litespeed memcache webserver + master / slave db setup took a complete shit when we installed this resulting in 8 hours of hell

Update, sessions cacheing being on in litespeed is believed to be the what caused our issues so beware anyone running litespeed with session cacheing on

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by Ross L

Flushing cache doesn't seem to work with Xcache installed. It just hangs. Also uninstalling when using Xcache installed just hangs, which then leaves the site CSS-less. Also editing themes just hangs.

To uninstall it, I had to go to AdminCP > vB Optimise and select "no" on all options and then save it. Then uninstall it as usual, so that it didn't affect the site design.

I've had to remove it due to the issues with it.

I have the same issue Flushing cache...i basically had to restart apache and it seems to have issue with Vbgallery as well

[SweetHome]

thanks.

[mme42]

I'm satisfied so far. Using Filecache in vB 3.8.1:

Before vB Optimise

# Page Generation 0.15935 seconds
# Memory Usage 3,019KB
# Queries Executed 14

After vB Optimise

# Page Generation 0.12612 seconds
# Memory Usage 3,100KB
# Queries Executed 11

I have a bunch of mods disabled at the moment too from trying to pin down performance issues. So, maybe the custom datastore option will cut down the queries even more.

Thanks Deceptor !

[dancue]

FYI: Creating Profile Fields will require you to flush the cache

[TheLastSuperman]

Ahh crickey :whoa:

I've install this on several of the sites I help run and several more... first problem was today

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/demo/public_html/online/includes/class_activecache.php on line 20

I tried several things to fix it but unsuccessful and I cannot login to admincp to disable

Making a new db and uploading backup via MySQLDumper, also I read through nearly all pages and did not see anything similar but I might have missed a post here or there.

Regardless any insight on this would be helpful so I can avoid this in the future.

FYI, all the files had just finished uploading then I imported the product and whammo ... I could not believe the message was there as I have installed this countless times before no problems!

Thanks Deceptor!

S-MAN

[TheLastSuperman]

Bump, I had pasted the wrong error, updated post w/ correct error being displayed, that was after I had tried a manual uninstall... unsuccessful.

Line 20 reads... static $class = __CLASS__;