Board Optimization - [DBTech] vB Optimise v2 (vB4)

vB Optimise Lite

Professional version & feature list available @ www.DragonByte-Tech.com
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

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Features - Lite

• 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).
• [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like statistics Caching
  Caches statistics page for the Advanced Post Thanks / Like mod by DBTech.
• [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging statistics Caching
  Caches statistics page for the Advanced User Tagging mod by DBTech.
• 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.
• Forum Resource Statistic
  Shows off vB Optimise resource saving statistics directly within forumhome statistics.
• 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.

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.
• "Who Has Read Thread" Cache (4.2.0+)
  Caches Show Thread "Who Has Read Thread" to remove a query and allow larger sites to display this data without impact.
• "Who Has Visited Forum" Cache (4.2.0+)
  Caches Forum Home "Who Has Visited Forum" to remove a 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.
• CDN Integration
  vB Optimise now integrates with popular CDN systems: Amazon S3, Origin Pull or Mirror, Rackspace Cloud, Remote Server (custom CDN) and Windows Azure.
• Plugin Cache
  Stores all plugins in a PHP file, improving performance for plugin execution
• ....and more!

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)

Q: It says my opcode cacher can't store data?
A: Check to see you're using a supported Apache handler if you're using Apache: http://www.thecpaneladmin.com/wp-con...phandlers2.png

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[John Lester]

Ok knownhost is suggesting that I should enable suPHP which means no XCache and to install memcache instead of XCache. Anyone have this set up on their server? How does it compare to running DSO and XCache?

[eva2000]

Originally Posted by John Lester

Ok knownhost is suggesting that I should enable suPHP which means no XCache and to install memcache instead of XCache. Anyone have this set up on their server? How does it compare to running DSO and XCache?

memcached based vboptimise works fine http://vbtechsupport.com/1526/ / http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/blogs...ache-hits-261/

although you will loose more performance switching to suPHP than you'd gain from using vB optimise + memcached

but having vb optimise + memcached + suPHP is better than nothing.

[John Lester]

I don't see the point of using suPHP anyways, so I will probably just stick with vb optimise and xcache

[John Lester]

Originally Posted by Chadi

Due to no shared caching feature in Eaccelator 9.6.1, I have decided to try Xcache instead and now get this error:

Warning: xcache_get() [function.xcache-get]: XCache var cache was not initialized properly. Check php log for actual reason in [path]/dbtech/vboptimise/includes/operators/xcache.php on line 21

Chadi you ever find out what caused this? I'm getting the same error after saving settings.

I completely uninstalled 2.0.1 and deleted the files, then installed 2.5 btw. Forgot to add that I run vB 4.1.12 pl 2

[betterthanyours]

From the looks of it, the host needs to set the var cache size. The xcache.var_count should be the number of cores directly and readily available to serve your website. If you need further assistance let me know. You can contact me via PM. Are you using VPS or shared?

Make sure you flush the vboptimise cache.

Why are you using 2.1 or 2.5? I'm using 1.3...

[John Lester]

Yep they did not enable the var cache, and I'm using 2.5 because I'm thinking of upgrading to vB 4.2.

[betterthanyours]

Originally Posted by John Lester

Yep they did not enable the var cache, and I'm using 2.5 because I'm thinking of upgrading to vB 4.2.

Apologies, I thought you were meant 2.5 xCache version as opposed to vBOptimise.

[John Lester]

Ok so I haven't noticed any change and when I click on the "Resource Statistics" link the page shows no savings. I have attached screen shots of my settings, I didn't install xcache ... my host did so perhaps there is something else they need to tweak?

[John Lester]

Question ... do I have to uncomment the relevant lines in config.php?

[betterthanyours]

Go to /includes/ and open config.php you need to uncomment:

// $config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Filecache';

and set it to

$config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_XCache';

Then, you need to go to /includes/datastore/ and open the datastore.php file and set all the vars (between each '') to

vB_Datastore_XCache

e.g.

'vB_Datastore_XCache'

If you need further assistance feel free to contact me.