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]

PHP 5.2.6 should work fine, as for errors, check your php.ini for:

display_errors

Set this to On to display PHP errors. For more information see this page: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/errorfun...display-errors

[MrNase]

Originally Posted by 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

Is it normal that it now takes more time to generate the page? I'm using the filecache?

[logicuk]

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?

[Deceptor]

Filecache can differ depending on the hard drives your server has, for best results regarding page generation ideally you'd be using one of the other options. I've found XCache has the best impact on Page Generation along with Memcache.

Also, nothing will break, the scripts will simply tell you access denied, if they did break that would be a huge flaw, haha.

[TheLastSuperman]

Ok Deceptor, here's my report lol...

Loaded orig Version yesterday.
Pages seemed to load faster including info and ajax from other mods etc.
It makes switching forums faster i.e. we have several styles as we offer tournaments and it is helping them to load faster.... If you have not visited the forums that day it still loads the first time slow (which is fater now than before w/ vBo) but after that, it's like lightning in a bottle. Our forums do not "hang" as much waiting for all the data to catch up in the browser now lol.

Today w/ the update, seems the same.

So, per my previous post, 3.6.8 is running smooth.. I might be time to release it in the 3.6 Mod area as you know many will not attempt what I did as they lack experience w/ VB so best bet is to make a mod thread for it in 3.6.x forums so they can enjoy as well!

Thanks Again!

S-MAN

Edit: Ohh and as of this post, I Nominated MOTM

[Deceptor]

Thanks for the detailed report Superman

I did consider posting it in the vB 3.7/3.6 areas, but to help keep track of everything and responses it's easier just to keep it here, be great if vBulletin.org had a system that allowed the thread to appear in multiple forums though, so people know it supports multiple versions (sounds like a good mod actually...).

[therogueforums]

VERY promising mod. I'll be keeping a close on this one

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

Thanks for the detailed report Superman

I did consider posting it in the vB 3.7/3.6 areas, but to help keep track of everything and responses it's easier just to keep it here, be great if vBulletin.org had a system that allowed the thread to appear in multiple forums though, so people know it supports multiple versions (sounds like a good mod actually...).

I KNOW! I was thinking that myself after I first joined, it would cut down on hassle and us who do support to do it better IMO!

And - No Problem!

[Deceptor]

Originally Posted by therogueforums

VERY promising mod. I'll be keeping a close on this one

Give it a try, won't bite

[GreasySpoon]

Thanks for importing eAccelerator.

Working fine.