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)

[Deceptor]

birdie - Regarding your errors, it's because you installed the modification on the same server with multiple vB forums, I assume you used either XCache or Memcache? No doubt the cached items conflicted. This will be rectified in 1.0.3 where you're given the ability to insert custom data prefix's to ensure the cached content is kept unique to each individual vBulletin install.

ForYou - Unfortunately I've not been able to replicate this issue, if you could turn off cache phrases, then cache styles, then cache templates, and after each turn attempt to use quick reply again, to see if disabling any of the cache methods fixes the issue. If I'm right then it'll be phrases, since you're using a different language. That or something specific with your apache setup.

Andreas - Thanks for the kind words, and for the suggestions. I did consider eAccelerator but unless I'm mistaken vBulletin doesn't use it for a bug that occurs, if or not that will relate to vB Optimise I'm unaware of, but I'll look into to and if not integrate the controller.

As for everyone else, I'm happy to see the positive impact this is having on forums, I'll be releasing 1.0.3 very soon

[GreasySpoon]

Which type of caching did you choose? Try the filecache if it work.

Edit: Too late ;-)

[ForYou]

Still the same problem , please let me know step by step what can do to solve this problem ,

[ForYou]

still the same problem ,

[Deceptor]

ForYou - Are you saying that after disabling all the caches you're still getting the error? If that's the case disable the product vB Optimise and see if you're still getting the error, if you are then it is being caused by something else.

[veenuisthebest]

oh man I can really see performance boost with this mod. And it did reduced 2 queries globally So nicely written, very well described settings, just amazing.

One question:-

I am using File Cache, I notice a lot of PHP files created in /vboptimise folder, can you please tell me how they are distributed, i mean on what basis that many php files are created.

Installed, nominated and Thanks a lot!

P.S.: If this was possible, why in the world vbulletin didn't do something like this, performance is the top thing. vBulletin should buy this code from you

[Deceptor]

Hi veenuisthebest,

The vboptimise/ folder will populate with the cache files created by vB Optimise, the basis that they are created on is 1 file per item, that item can currently be one of the following:

- A phrase
- A phrase group
- A template
- Style information (for 1 style)

Glad it's working out great for you

[Ramsesx]

After installing everything f** up and I get this error on a blank page:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/www/doc/15667/myhomepage
/www/forum/includes/class_activecache.php on line 11

[Deceptor]

Ramsesx - What PHP version are you using? You need to be using PHP5, there's no errors in the PHP files available to download, especially since your the first to report this error. Is it possible the files you uploaded got corrupted or uploaded in binary?

[Ramsesx]

Ok, my fault I thought I'm already on php5 but it's only 4.4.8. Any hints how I can get things on the road again? Somebody before said he disabled the hooksystem in the config.php, but on my file there is no line as described

Login to FTP => go to your config.php file => at the very top of the
file you should see this code uncommented "define('DISABLE_HOOKS',
true);" un-comment the code and make it active then re-upload the file.
This turns off ALL plugins.