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)

[MrApples]

The mod simply needs to shut itself down during any administrative actions like installing a plugin or editing a theme.

[NolF]

@ MrApples
I had problems with those activities until I added xcache.admin.enable_auth = Off. After that all those activities went smoothly (don't forget to restart httpd)

[Martell]

Error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /xxx/xxx/xxx/docs/includes/class_activecache.php on line 20

class_activecache.php on line 20 => static $class = __CLASS__;

[msu2k]

The issue I was having with this mod was with using XCache over multiple servers. I have a four server cluster and the cache was not be flushed properly by this mod over all four servers.

I was advised to use memcache instead:

Originally Posted by eva2000

xcache datastore is for use where database is on same server as xcache. On multi-web server setup use memcached for datastore

[msu2k]

Ok, I now have memcache installed on our cluster.

vBulletin's config.php is using memcache
vBSEO is using memcache

Do I have to use memcache for vB Optimise? After enabling it for vB Optimise it seems a little slower than the File Cache. Any reason I can't just stick with the File Cache even though I am using memcache on the other two?

[goyo]

Originally Posted by MrApples

The mod simply needs to shut itself down during any administrative actions like installing a plugin or editing a theme.

In my opinion it's not that simple.

I have experienced xcache "problems" (not obvious at first because xcache caching and no error logs) on several servers with fastcgi php and/or suphp (irregardless of vboptimise).

The xcache garbage collection somehow works differently on those servers...so I'm not sure at all that you have a vboptimise specific problem.

[cafenetland]

installed.

thx

[shlomot]

Hello,

My picture viewing via LightBox has gone bad. When clicking (or hovering) a picture - the screen region that should have been the LightBox's frame goes Grey but no frame opens up.

There are three changes to my community settings since it stop functioning properly that may have been relevant to the problem. I wonder if you can help me to pinpoint the actual cause:

1. Upgrades from vb3.8 RC1 to RC2 (now it's Gold and the problem persists).

2. Upgraded vB Optimized to 1.2 (now it's 1.3.2 and the problem persists).

3. Changed attachment storage from database to file storage following vB Optimize recommendation and the ever-growing number of attachments.

Thanks for any help, tip or trick.

[tteal]

Originally Posted by Martell

Error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /xxx/xxx/xxx/docs/includes/class_activecache.php on line 20

class_activecache.php on line 20 => static $class = __CLASS__;

I just installed this mod and have the same exact error. How did you fix it?

[tteal]

Currently my board is completely down due to this mod and I'm getting the following error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/content/xxxx/forum/includes/class_activecache.php on line 20

Any help/support would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.