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)

[chooky]

Yes please public the vbadvanced changes, very good job guy. Nominated!

[shlomot]

Thanks for this initiative.

Is it a major deal to apply vBadvanced support for its Dynamics and Link Directory products as well?

Originally Posted by Deceptor

Upcoming Update

In the next update, I've focused on vBAdvanced. It's a popular modification I've seen but at the cost of resources due to the amount of data it can display. In the example below, I show you what vB Optimise has done to a default vBAdvanced installation on my test vBulletin 3.8 forum.


vBAdvanced CMPS Index Page - vB Optimise DISABLED, vB Optimise vBAdvanced Integration DISABLED


vBAdvanced CMPS Index Page - vB Optimise ENABLED, vB Optimise vBAdvanced Integration DISABLED


Now for the important part...

vBAdvanced CMPS Index Page - vB Optimise ENABLED, vB Optimise vBAdvanced Integration ENABLED



I'm still currently testing all aspects of the vBAdvanced Integration switch coming in the next release, but I am very excited about the results, and I hope it'll have a great impact on your forums

[Deceptor]

With Dynamics and Link Directory being paid modifications, I haven't been able to get them myself, and with them being paid I'm not too sure how popular they are really. If they wanted they could send me copies of the scripts so I could integrate vB Optimise into them, yay for freebies

[logicuk]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

Upcoming Update

In the next update, I've focused on vBAdvanced. It's a popular modification I've seen but at the cost of resources due to the amount of data it can display. In the example below, I show you what vB Optimise has done to a default vBAdvanced installation on my test vBulletin 3.8 forum.


vBAdvanced CMPS Index Page - vB Optimise DISABLED, vB Optimise vBAdvanced Integration DISABLED


vBAdvanced CMPS Index Page - vB Optimise ENABLED, vB Optimise vBAdvanced Integration DISABLED


Now for the important part...

vBAdvanced CMPS Index Page - vB Optimise ENABLED, vB Optimise vBAdvanced Integration ENABLED



I'm still currently testing all aspects of the vBAdvanced Integration switch coming in the next release, but I am very excited about the results, and I hope it'll have a great impact on your forums

HOLY S**T

This is going to be amazing, i didnt think this addon could get any better!

Keep up the amazing work your doing Deceptor you rock!!!

[goyo]

Originally Posted by shlomot

I strongly recommend that we will all vote this MOD as MOTH for the rare combination of excellence of product and service.

There are good MODs out there and there are developers who offer a great service. However, a second-to-none performance on both planes doesn't come easy.

100% agreed

[logicuk]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

With Dynamics and Link Directory being paid modifications, I haven't been able to get them myself, and with them being paid I'm not too sure how popular they are really. If they wanted they could send me copies of the scripts so I could integrate vB Optimise into them, yay for freebies

What about photoplog pro? i can supply it.
(paid vb photo gallery)

And vbclassified (paid vbulletin auction addon) i can also supply this.

[Deceptor]

logicuk, while I thank you for the offer, I'd rather get permission from the authors of these modifications as I doubt they'd take too kindly to me recieving all this from their clients.

[logicuk]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

logicuk, while I thank you for the offer, I'd rather get permission from the authors of these modifications as I doubt they'd take too kindly to me recieving all this from their clients.

Well i have paid to use these addons, if i want to let you take a look at them so you can include vbOptimise thats fine, you dont have to ask the authors

ps. the author of vbclassifieds is a very bad guy, never around, no support, and badly coded script.

[tmc]

Then you shouldn't be using the vbclassifieds script..

Deceptor, I'm really, really excited about vBadvanced integration. I was actually just going to go over there and bother Brian into figuring out how to incorporate this very thing into his products, but hey, as long as someone is supplying it.

I do wonder why vBa even uses so many queries.... I've looked through all the non-module code and I don't really understand the use of all the overhead that he introduces.. It all seemed unnecessary to me. *shrug*

[Deceptor]

I'll keep it in mind logic, thanks

Update: v1.3.0 released, see the changelog for more details, and here you will find how this change can impact vBAdvanced (in a positive way, ofcourse ): https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=258