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)

[MentaL]

Great app, saving me around 2,200,000 queries a day.

[Edgespeeder06]

Thanks guys, small issue, where do I tell my forum to fetch the images from that folder I move them too? I forgot where to do that. I'll have to move the others once I can figure that out since my members just created new ones since they thought the images has disappeared. I'm just not sure where to declare to pull them again so that they display?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by James T Brock

When I try to enable XCACHE in vboptimize and run a system test I get this popup error: AJAX Failure internal server error

And then when I try to load the forum it lags and according to my debug info the memory usage is quadrupled (4mb without and 13 mb with vboptomize and xcache turned on) and the server loads skyrocket. Any idea what's wrong?

Please try running with Filecache enabled instead, it looks like your XCache doesn't work properly.

Originally Posted by Edgespeeder06

Thanks guys, small issue, where do I tell my forum to fetch the images from that folder I move them too? I forgot where to do that. I'll have to move the others once I can figure that out since my members just created new ones since they thought the images has disappeared. I'm just not sure where to declare to pull them again so that they display?

I'm sorry, I don't see how this is related to vB Optimise. Could you please clarify?


Fillip

[Edgespeeder06]

I just meant this program makes me move the images file for example to another spot to not run a query but how do I tell vb now to fetch them from the new folder? Because for some reason it doesn't do that on its own and my members created all the images all over again? Is there a way?

[DragonByte Tech]

This mod does in no way ask you to move image files


Fillip

[Dave84311]

Trying this with memcache, I don't see much ram usage:

Free: 8.0 GBytes (100.0%) Hits: 27912164 (77.7%)
Used: 3.1 MBytes (0.0%) Misses: 7988459 (22.3%)

With apc I see tons of usage, but it seems REALLY unstable. Members on my forum get random 503's and it took down my site for a hour before I disabled it. It did however use the full 128 megs that I allocated and hits were 99.9%, can't say the same for memcache.

[DragonByte Tech]

Okay


Fillip

[MentaL]

You have comparability issues with tapatalk but its saved me millions of queries per day.

[DragonByte Tech]

We're using this on DBTech alongside Tapatalk with no issues whatsoever


Fillip

[MentaL]

And how about CloudFlare?