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

Glad it's working great for you hibees

Thank you very much,voted for MOTM on version 1.1,this has to be MOTY :up:

Once I suss out eAccelerator then whoooffffffffff take off,not that my forums were slow as on a dedicated server with dual core cpu and 2gb ram but even at that this makes a difference..

I may not bother trying to get eAccelerator to work althou now i'm interested to see if it would improve it further..

Page Generation 0.19055 seconds on forumhome is just terrible :up:

Originally Posted by logicuk

My forum is so fast now its crazy! this has to be the best mod ever created!!

wots your url mate if you don't mind me asking, brilliant this eh

[Deceptor]

Personally I'd recommend using XCache over eAccelerator, easier to install and much better in my opinion

[veenuisthebest]

Either that -or- your XCache has a low TTL (time to live) setting so cache is dropped every 5 minutes or so.

This is the reason, it has a low TTL.

Its fine if cache is dropped in few minutes. Infact, this solves out a big problem for me of not showing stale data now.

Loving vBulletin more from now on, just because of you and your vBoptimise. This is actually the BESTEST MODIFICATION EVER CREATED for vBulletin. I just can't stop thanking you deceptor, this has driven me crazyyy lol.

Thanks a lottt...

[KevinL]

Yup works no problem with 3.7. Excellent work.

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

Personally I'd recommend using XCache over eAccelerator, easier to install and much better in my opinion

Thanks will look into it tomorrow(or later the day lol),better not mess with the server at this small hour (00:20GMT),plus had a few beers lol :up:

[NolF]

WoW incredible I jsut install it and I just cna feel the extra speed Could anyone tell me how to enable the Query number and execution time at the bottom of the page? I can't find the option. Would be cool to have quantitative data on how much this mod rocks

Installed and MOTD DDD

In 3.7.4 I found a curios bug which is not really a big deal. It you hace Store CSS as File disabled, and you try to enable it with this mod enabled only what is shown in the picture happens. Once disabled, you may enable Store as CSS and then enable the mod. Does this happen in 3.8?

Love it and thx mate

[Vitaly]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

Bashy, are you using the homewol? Try disabling that to see if it works - be aware this is untested on vB 3.7, so I'm not sure if it will always work for that version.

I confirm. WOL doesn't work with 3.7.4, "database error". Must be disabled.

[Deceptor]

Nolf - I can confirm it works fine on my 3.8 install.

As for the debug info, it's this in your config.php:

$config['Misc']['debug'] = 1;

Vitaly - Some users have said it works on 3.7, others not, this is designed around 3.8 however. Could you tell me the db error that occured?

Thanks.

[NolF]

Vitaly I don't get a db error with WOL enabled :O (3.7.4)

Thx Deceptor just love the hack ^^

[lazee]

WOL .It work fine on my v3.7.2 board

Have anyone compare between the 1.0.2 and 1.2.0 version, my board used 1.0.2 it ran faster this morning and server load reduce from 0.67 to 0.45 , the 1.2.0 fast but the serverload reduce about half of the first one.

The only problem i got is every time i flush the cache it just never stop ( but it does clear the cache )

Deceptor: Thank a lot for this great plugin .

My spec: mysql 5.0.58 php 5.2.6 xcache v1.2.2