Board Optimization - [DBTech] vB Optimise 2.0.1 (Lite)

vB Optimise Lite

This is ported from my original version released for vBulletin 3.8 located here. In this release I have re-coded vB Optimise from the gound and focused stability over features.

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 - Lite

• 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
No change, just keeping in sync with vB 3.8/Pro

[>>] 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)

[doopz]

Nice! have it installed; looks promising so far.
is there a way to show the chart for our forum?

[Deceptor]

@badawidollah

You're more than welcome

@doops

I'm afraid the chart is only available to Pro users (and then users have to manually request being put on the public chart). If you want to monitor the queries different, you can use vBulletin debug mode and switch vBO on/off on pages to gather the difference in queries

[badawidollah]

i know litespeed can save memory for apache. but apache is not free.
i planned to buy litespeed for apache since my forum memory overload. more than 1,2GB RAM
with this software, its about 500MB ram only.

httpd memory save more than 75% for me.
and my forum speep more than 5 times.

i never think someone will give it for free.

[mandingo]

Originally Posted by badawidollah

i know litespeed can save memory for apache. but apache is not free.
i planned to buy apache since my forum memory overload. more than 1,2GB RAM
with this software, its about 500MB ram only.

httpd memory save more than 75% for me.
and my forum speep more than 5 times.

i never think someone will give it for free.

Apache is quite free:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi

[badawidollah]

Originally Posted by mandingo

Apache is quite free:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi

apache is free
but i am talking about litespeed for apache

[Deceptor]

Originally Posted by badawidollah

apache is free
but i am talking about litespeed for apache

Not sure what you mean by litespeed "for" apache. Litespeed is intended as an actual replacement to apache to run your web port (80). Unless you want the enterprise edition Litespeed is free: http://litespeedtech.com/litespeed-w...-editions.html

[badawidollah]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

Not sure what you mean by litespeed "for" apache. Litespeed is intended as an actual replacement to apache to run your web port (80). Unless you want the enterprise edition Litespeed is free: http://litespeedtech.com/litespeed-w...-editions.html

free litespeed not recommend for VB4
because php4.x.x not 5.2.x above

thanks

** could we upgrade litespeed php version?

[Deceptor]

I don't know for sure, but I would imagine there's no problem upgrading PHP to 5.2.x or 5.3.x on litespeed, would seem rather strange if they locked you down to php 4.

[badawidollah]

i`ll looking for another way how to upgrade it

thanks

[sadiq6210]

Thanks