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)

[Alfa1]

My profile backgrounds stopped working quite some time ago, as well as social group layout. Relating thread at vb.com: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...re-still-there.
I could not lay my finger on it until today. I turned off vb optimise to check something and a bit later both the profiles as social group layout were working again.

Any idea what is causing this?

[FreshFroot]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

My profile backgrounds stopped working quite some time ago, as well as social group layout. Relating thread at vb.com: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...re-still-there.
I could not lay my finger on it until today. I turned off vb optimise to check something and a bit later both the profiles as social group layout were working again.

Any idea what is causing this?

Report it at their support forums.

I hate to say it, but I ran into issues with their other hacks too causing things to go hay wire. Luckly they fixed the user tagging hack to stop conflicts. I hope they can do the same for this, but you have to report it on their support forums or project tracker.

[Alfa1]

Added.

[madmax1228]

I installed this today, checked everything, and am getting:

Your Opcache Operator extension is functioning, however it is unable to store data. Please check your extension configuration.

when I so a system check. Any ideas on what to do with this?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

This hack conflicts with the multiple accounts hack. Could you please look into this?

I really can not do without the multiple accounts hack and as you know I am highly interested in vboptimizing my servers. I'm much looking forward to the forthcoming versions of vboptimise with CDN and other goodies.

If you can be more specific as to the conflict then we may be able to fix it, otherwise we'll be entirely unable to fix it.

Originally Posted by Seba123

I've installed it, set it with APC and vbo_ prefix. Plugin is enabled, but nothing is cached (no entry with vbo_ in database).

Why?

APC and XCache are known to not work with the most common configurations. Please try Memcached.

Originally Posted by ukindian

not only that few others too...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=137

If you can be more specific as to the conflict then we may be able to fix it, otherwise we'll be entirely unable to fix it.

Originally Posted by Alfa1

My profile backgrounds stopped working quite some time ago, as well as social group layout. Relating thread at vb.com: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...re-still-there.
I could not lay my finger on it until today. I turned off vb optimise to check something and a bit later both the profiles as social group layout were working again.

Any idea what is causing this?

What do you mean, layout?

Originally Posted by madmax1228

I installed this today, checked everything, and am getting: when I so a system check. Any ideas on what to do with this?

Google for a test script for your chosen caching extension and see if that works.


Fillip

[JacquiiDesigns]

Running Test: Connection to xcache
Test completed successfully


Running Test: Store Cache
Test completed successfully


Running Test: Fetch Cache
Your Opcache Operator extension is functioning, however it is unable to store data. Please check your extension configuration.


Running Test: Flush Cache
Test completed successfully

I'm using Xcache - or attempting to use it - I see the above error highlighted in red when running system test. Any advice on fixing this will be much appreciated. I'm not a tech savvy server Admin so keep it simple please

Thanks for the share and thanks in advance for assistance.

Jacquii.

[melbo]

Wow. Excellent! I'm running APC and memcached as datastore and just installed this and my forum just snaps! vBSEO and all my mods seem to be cooperating.

So far, (last 15 minutes), I haven't noticed anything not working.

Thank you so much for this. Just read a post about Pro version... might have to look into that.

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

If you can be more specific as to the conflict then we may be able to fix it, otherwise we'll be entirely unable to fix it.

I'll be glad to. The multiple accounts reports miss IP information and reports to have the banned usergroup found, when it has not and doesnt when it has found the banned usergroup.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

What do you mean, layout?

The avatars of group members are no longer in their own block, but instead the 'Showing 10 of 62 Member(s)' block. is tiny and the avatars overlap its outlines.

The images no longer have a 'Showing 5 of 20 Picture(s)' block, but are all over the page.

[Amenadiel]

I have this little plugin which minifies html at the global complete hook.

How should I change it to allow vboptimise to cache the already minified template?

[Amenadiel]

By the way... when I run the tests it doesn't show anything. Just empy table cells below each test.

BUT, enabling debug mode shows less memory use and less queries, so I guess it's working fine.