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)

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

Does vBPortal work for 3.8?

Yes my sites running it

and would photopost gallery have any queries that could be cut down?

[logicuk]

Originally Posted by hIBEES

Yes my sites running it

and would photopost gallery have any queries that could be cut down?

D will take a look at photoplog pro after hes done vb seo he said earlier

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by logicuk

D will take a look at photoplog pro after hes done vb seo he said earlier

ahh sound mate,trying to keep up with this thread,its going so fasttttttttttttttttttttt

[veenuisthebest]

I have an idea deceptor,

Won't it be cool, if developers can create their OWN addons for vB Optimise?

This way we can build our own addons for vboptimise with its own special syntax and rules to cache queries for custom scripts.

SO, instead of integrating each and every script to vboptimise, you can create some default addons for popular scripts like vbseo, vbgallery, vbportal etc. Those who have them, will use it, others won't be affected by it at all NOR it would increase the size of vb optimise (which would be the base for all). vbadvanced option should also be like that, as not everybody uses it.

I hope you got me. For an example, check out how vBSEO Sitemap generator has the addon feature to create our own sitemap generator scripts for custom mods.

This would also help keeping vb optimise script untouched and intact.

Thanks

[rareclownfish]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

Does vBPortal work for 3.8?

Yes it does, I'm running both live.

[Deceptor]

veenus - This is what I'm working towards, I just wanted to introduce some major modifications into it first to get the ball rolling

As it stands now, a mod author could easily integrate vB Optimise into their system without the need for hook locations, the vBAdvanced integration was an example of this, as a single file housed the means to plug into hooks, store and serve cache, and manage settings for module cache data.

[GlitterKill]

On my 3.7.3 PL1 forum I am running these various performance improving products and everything works happy together. My question is (yes, I know you don't guarantee it works with versions other than 3.8 ), which of the following products can this one product of yours replace since it does the same thing (more or less)? And, which would be worth running in tandem (if possible) with your vB Optimise product since they provide a tweak yours doesn't (yet)?

Plugin Based Template Cache - 1.0.3 - Plugin based Template-to-File cache without file modification

Vbulletin Template Compressor - 3.5.0 - Compresses Your Templates Statically

My other question involves using more than one cache method with your product. I already use memcache as my temp datastore via the standard VB implementation ( ala config.php) and I use eAccelerator (version pasted below) as my server-wide php caching application. eAccelerator has been flawless since install; excellent boost in performance and reduction in server load with ZERO fuss to date. When selecting the cache method for your product, which would be the correct one for the best speed boost?

Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies
with eAccelerator v0.9.5.2, Copyright (c) 2004-2006 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator
with Zend Extension Manager v1.0.11, Copyright (c) 2003-2006, by Zend Technologies
with Zend Optimizer v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006, by Zend Technologies

This product looks absolutely perfect for high traffic forums and/or forums that are a bit heavy on the mods. I am excited to give it a shot; I just want to make sure it is done right the first time around.

Originally Posted by hIBEES

Yes my sites running it

and would photopost gallery have any queries that could be cut down?

D will take a look at photoplog pro after hes done vb seo he said earlier

Just remember that Photoplog Pro and Photopost Pro are two completely different animals. You would make MANY people happy with some Photopost tweaks. There are quite a few users (including myself) that use Photopost with VBulletin (as well as VBSEO). I have been running a VB/Photopost setup for over 4 years now and have tried Photoplog quite a bit. Photopost is the most feature-rich and versatile gallery I have ever used.

So for a wish list of products to optimize, it would have to be these since they are the ones I have come to rely on.

• Photopost Pro
• VBSEO
• DownloadsII
• vBadvanced CMPS
• vBulletin Blog
• ibPro Arcade

[Deceptor]

GlitterKill, the first mod you mentioned can be dropped, as vB Optimise does this for you already.

As for template compressor, you could keep that, but you might have to update that cache then vB Optimise cache for them both to work together.

Lastly, regarding your cache systems, give them both a try, see which feels best and what kinda page generation times you get

[SBlueman]

Went to go save the vb Optimize setting in a vbAdvanced module and I got this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function save_settings() in /home/sblueman/public_html/forums/includes/class_activecache_vbadvanced.php on line 74

[Deceptor]

SBlueman - What version of vBulletin are you running?