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)

[R-D]

Got a couple of bugfixes for you. Both in vboptimise/cachers/cacher_templates.php.

Line 27:

if (CMS_SCRIPT)

Should be:

if (defined('CMS_SCRIPT'))

Otherwise it always evaluates to true and includes the $add array of CMS templates, even if CMS_SCRIPT isn't defined. This means the datastore is checked unnecessarily for 40+ non-existent templates, if the CMS isn't installed.


Line 91:

foreach ($argument AS $template)
{
	$templateids[] = intval($templateassoc["$template"]);
}

Should be:

foreach ($argument AS $template)
{
	$tem = intval($templateassoc["$template"]);

	if ($tem > 0)
	{
		$templateids[] = $tem;
	}
}

This one is minor, compared to the other, but vBOptimise 2.0.1 looks for the humanverify template, which doesn't exist. It's included in a number of vBulletin pages, but is altered to the correct humanverify_type template in global.php, line 271 (vBulletin 3.8X).

Checking for a template ID greater than 0 would eliminate any additional datastore checking, if other templates don't exist but are included for whatever reason.

[DragonByte Tech]

Hey, thanks

Sadly because we (DBTech) do not have access to Deceptor's account we won't be able to implement these fixes until we re-release the mod under our own account.
Obviously we don't want to do this until we have some actual updates to release, so to ensure this post won't get lost to the mists of time, could you please re-post it at our forum as a Feature Request?

Our custom issue tracker system will ensure we will re-read this when it's time to plan out and create a new version


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Development resumed here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=284817


Fillip

[Mark_Zuckerberg]

SORRY WRONG POST I HAVE POSTED ON THE WRONG THREAD

[DragonByte Tech]

This version of vB Optimise is no longer supported, please see the post above yours.

Fillip

[Mapo]

hello,
I tried to upgrade to 2.5.0 in a vbulletin 3.8.7
I did something wrong upgrading and needed to return to the previous version, now I am trying to uninstall or upgrade and I get the following error:

Warning: require_once([path]/vboptimise/core/class_vboptimise.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/init.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 13

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/.../vboptimise/core/class_vboptimise.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/.../forum/includes/init.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 13

What can I do?
Thank you

[DragonByte Tech]

PHP Code:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); 


in config.php beneath <?php

Please note that this version is no longer supported, and queries regarding this version may not be answered


Fillip

[postcd]

Hi, i need help. My Filecache folder is 1gb big. I have thousands of topics, it seems to me like every post is cached which i dont want, size is too large. Please how can i decrease this size? I have default settings + file cache enabled (no other is supported) and system test tells that all 4 Fetching, flushhing cache etc works OK.

I see some files in public_html/dbtech/vboptimise/filecache are older 3 days which i dont understand, my settings should be flush in hours.

How to reduce filecache size, not to cache threads, posts? Other option than hard cronjob delete?

[DragonByte Tech]

This version is no longer supported, please use this version: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=284816


Fillip

[Terrablade]

If i installed APC server side, is it enough? or should I also use the APC in this mod?