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]

veenuisthebest,

While vB Optimise will re-visit cache files, for reading and writing, if your server does this then chances are 644 is sufficient for both read/write perms, so it wouldn't matter

[veenuisthebest]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

veenuisthebest,

While vB Optimise will re-visit cache files, for reading and writing, if your server does this then chances are 644 is sufficient for both read/write perms, so it wouldn't matter

great!

btw, works great on 3.7.3 and 3.7.4PL1 with/without vBSEO.

thanks

[MarkJW]

I was just about to post that my forum was having problems, then I noticed that 1.1.0 was out (I downloaded 1.0.2 earlier today, didn't expect a new version that fast lol). Then I read the notes and some of the thread and figured it must be a corrupted cache. Sure as heck, it was! Updating fixed it for the few members that were having problems. Thanks!

Running on AionSource.com, with a couple hundred people on at once (average). I can feel a difference!

Also, nominated.

[Deceptor]

Glad to hear the update resolved the issue for you MarkJW

[logicuk]

i just installed this and now my site is blank!!

please help i cant do anything

vb 3.7.2

All i did was upload the xml and i got a white page and now my whole site is broke, and my site is a large forum

[Deceptor]

logicuk - Please ensure you're using PHP5, this will not work on PHP4 (as the FAQ states). No doubt your server doesn't display php errors and just displays a blank page, it won't be an actual issue with the cache system since when you install by default it is turned off.

You'll probably need to disable plugins to get back into your admin cp, to remove the product if you're not on PHP5, you can do this by editing /includes/config.php and adding this line:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

Once you've removed the product, you can remove that line from config.php to bring all your other products back online.

[MrNase]

It's working like a charm on vBulletin 3.7.4


Before:

Page Generation 0,18873 seconds
Memory Usage 7,532KB
Queries Executed 17

After:

Page Generation 0,56768 seconds
Memory Usage 7,543KB
Queries Executed 15

[logicuk]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

logicuk - Please ensure you're using PHP5, this will not work on PHP4 (as the FAQ states). No doubt your server doesn't display php errors and just displays a blank page, it won't be an actual issue with the cache system since when you install by default it is turned off.

You'll probably need to disable plugins to get back into your admin cp, to remove the product if you're not on PHP5, you can do this by editing /includes/config.php and adding this line:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

Once you've removed the product, you can remove that line from config.php to bring all your other products back online.

omg thank you so much i thought my forum was ruined

Im using vb 3.7.2 PHP5.2.6 and i have memcache 3.0.1 installed

All i did was upload the xml and i got a blank page, how can i get this mod working for me?

[Deceptor]

logicuk - What version of PHP5 specifically are you running?

As for getting this to work, without an error I can't help much, I'd recommend uploading just the php files to your forum (don't install the product), then manually visit yoursite.com/forum/includes/class_activecache.php and class_activecache_methods.php, and see if you get any errors, ofcourse you will need to ensure PHP errors are being shown instead of surpressed.

If no errors occur there (you should see the message "Cannot access directly"), then it's possible another modification is conflicting with vB Optimise, if such is the case I'd be happy to help you figure out where the underline cause is and see what can be done to fix the issue

[logicuk]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

logicuk - What version of PHP5 specifically are you running?

As for getting this to work, without an error I can't help much, I'd recommend uploading just the php files to your forum (don't install the product), then manually visit yoursite.com/forum/includes/class_activecache.php and class_activecache_methods.php, and see if you get any errors, ofcourse you will need to ensure PHP errors are being shown instead of surpressed.

If no errors occur there (you should see the message "Cannot access directly"), then it's possible another modification is conflicting with vB Optimise, if such is the case I'd be happy to help you figure out where the underline cause is and see what can be done to fix the issue

php 5.2.6

you will need to ensure PHP errors are being shown instead of surpressed

How do i do this?

And if i manually visit yoursite.com/forum/includes/class_activecache.php and class_activecache_methods.php is there any chance it will break my site?