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)

[Sayid]

Upgraded to 384 and works perfectly like a charm

BTW, I use file cache system and most of features except vba cuz I don,t yet have it

[glorify]

Hey Deceptor,

Strange since I have been running this for a long while now. I use this mod to get stats at the bottom of my board.

With you mod off, my forumhome is 25 queries. With it on it jumps to 42.

Similar results on my vba home page.

I am using XCache and have all the optimal settings set.

Ideas?

[w3rd511]

Wow, I have to say this plugin works! The CPU was running at 90%+ during peak hours giving our forums DB errors but now its not going over 70%.

Great job!

[matthewhotdude]

Not sure if this mods causing the problem, but it is deffinatly some sort of cache problem.


On my site, If I used the "back" button on internet explorer my style totally messes up.... see image.


http://i32.tinypic.com/1zqr6nr.jpg

Vs http://www.chattaboxforums.com

--------------- Added 19 Aug 2009 at 00:56 ---------------

Noticed something else, when you press the back button, the forum looks like it did hours ago. I.E the time at the bottom says it's 3.43 pm when it's actuallty 12.55 am, and lists the newest member as the previous one

--------------- Added 19 Aug 2009 at 01:32 ---------------

UPDATE*

I deleted all my cookies tempoary internet files etc and it's working fine now. But what is the problem tho? As google as Cached my page that way also, so it's not just a problem with my pc

[bmckinley]

Does the flush feature work if the mod is turned off? I am finding that PHP w/fastCGI gives us the best increase, but I am wondering if the flush cache feature works when mod off?

(we are on PHP 5.2.9)

[badheeu]

Im getting this error when installing.

Updating style information for each style

    * KMA Default ... (Templates) (StyleVars) (Replacement Variables)
      Fatal error: Call to undefined method vb_activecache::flush() in /home/kmamv/domains/kma-forum.com/public_html/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(1014) : eval()'d code on line 4

[GhoHan]

Good this working fully for myforum
this modification requirements for biggest forum community will running stable & faster ...
recommended your system using
Web Server nginx 0.8.13-latest as cgi-fcgi
installed memcache & eaccelerator & xcache
PHP 5.2.9 or 5.2.10
PHP Max Post Size 512.00 MB
PHP Maximum Upload Size 100.00 MB
PHP Memory Limit 1.00 GB
MySQL Version 5.1.35
MySQL Packet Size 1.00 GB

After i'm using this modification see this my server Server Load Averages at admincp

0.49 0.52 0.46 | 6293 Users Online (5256 members and 1037 guests)

But you must use two server 1Server for webserver and 1Server for backend database server with HDD RPM over 15K

Regards

[enemy@fps]

seemed to be a good mod but ++++ed up my page.

[matthewhotdude]

Originally Posted by enemy@fps

seemed to be a good mod but ++++ed up my page.

How?

[animcentral]

Originally Posted by enemy@fps

seemed to be a good mod but ++++ed up my page.

i'm agree with you:up: it's also make alot of problem for users (old caches,editor problems,....)