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)

[veenuisthebest]

Deceptor, I have switched to xcache and I see much much better performace than filecache. Though I did not flushed the cache, just wanted to know why all is working fine for me without flushing the cache. I do have modifications, template edits etc.

Suggestion:

1. Can the forum titles be cached on index.php to reduce another query to extract all forums everytime.
2. Will the new feature of Forumhome WOL Cache, also cache the Statistics i.e. counts of threads, posts and members.

Thank you

[Bounce]

Installed...

Althou our forum is on a dedicated server there is a noticeable increase in speed :up:

[veenuisthebest]

1. I am facing a problem ONLY in 1.1.0 (this did not happened in 1.0.2)

Since enabling xcache, I am unable to edit any templates. Gives me a blank page on template saving.

There is no such problem using Filecache.

2. Another major problem I just found.

All member profiles look like as in attached pic, happens ONLY when viewed as guests. All phrases gone. It is happening only with vboptimise enabled, no matter what the cache type is.

thanks

[ssslippy]

Originally Posted by veenuisthebest

1. I am facing a problem ONLY in 1.1.0 (this did not happened in 1.0.2)

Since enabling xcache, I am unable to edit any templates. Gives me a blank page on template saving.

There is no such problem using Filecache.

2. Another major problem I just found.

All member profiles look like as in attached pic, happens ONLY when viewed as guests. All phrases gone. It is happening only with vboptimise enabled, no matter what the cache type is.

thanks

I can confirm the profile bug.

[nascartr]

Profile problem here too...only when you're not logged in. Using Filecache method.

[shlomot]

Concur, using only file cache.

Originally Posted by nascartr

Profile problem here too...only when you're not logged in. Using Filecache method.

[veenuisthebest]

Originally Posted by ssslippy

I can confirm the profile bug.

Originally Posted by nascartr

Profile problem here too...only when you're not logged in. Using Filecache method.

lol I am glad this is happening not just with me, so its a confirmed bug. Are you able to reproduce the first problem that I stated. Are you able to edit templates with vboptimise 1.1.0 using xcache?

Thanks

[Deceptor]

I'll get on fixing the bug right away. If you want a temporary fix for the profile issue, disabling phrase cache will resolve the issue.

Also, logicuk, the only possible way this mod adds queries is if it fails to cache the data, if you enable vBulletin debug mode you should see several vB Optimise messages explaining what it's doing, when first caching data it will execute more queries than vB does purely to cache the data, after that the query reduction begins. I'm assuming it keeps trying to cache the content but it's failing, if you're using filecache, ensure ./vboptimise has sufficient perms (read and write, usually chmod 0777).

[Bounce]

Deceptor,

I have eAccelerator installed on my server.
When I select this option I get this ...

vB Optimise: You have selected a cache method that vB Optimise has detected you cannot use, this may be because the extension required is either not installed or active on your server

Been using the file system but as it says

Additionally vB Optimise offers the ability to use alternative methods to caching if you have the extensions installed on your server, it is recommended you use one of these instead of File Cache. If you have multiple methods available it is advised you test each method and find the one that works and performs best for you.

I thought I'd try the eAccelerator option.

Thoughts?

[tpearl5]

I'm getting that phrase behavior when logged out as well. Disabled phrase caching and phrases are back.

Regardless I'm already seeing a performance increase. Nominated