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)

[ps2wiz]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

Database errors? No one else has encountered that issue. As Iain said above if you could provide what error that was it would be great. Not sure how DB errors caused you to crash either.

Yeah, I'm not an expert coder. But I don't see how this modification is responsible for database errors. It would help if you were to disclose more information about the errors though.

[bhanuprasad1981]

i am getting warning in system check for Running Test: Store Cache & Running Test: Fetch Cache :-

Your Opcache Operator extension is functioning, however it is unable to store data. Please check your extension configuration.


please help, i am using xcache

[Deceptor]

Hi bhanuprasad,

Please refer to my other posts located here, your XCache probably requires authentification configuration:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=137
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=141

[egyptsons]

Good work thank u
I will try it

[MadK]

Why does when I want to run a System Test, I get this error:

vB Optimise is currently offline. Please enable and configure vB Optimise to run a system test.

Although it is obviously running!

[kmohamed]

using page speed and yslow i didn't see any changes
i been using vB4 SuperCharged - Optimises CSS, Javascript and HTML and i saw huge changes
please explain what it does and how?
i appreciate the effort
thanx a lot

[DragonByte Tech]

Not intended to speed up the page, it reduces mySQL queries.

You can see the sort of savings sites make here: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/vboptimisesites.php

It will have a large impact on page speed if your server is dealing with a lot of queries (i.e your traffic goes up for instance, or you have features/modifiations which add queries to your pages). If thats not the case, then it won't have a huge effect on page speed - but it will still save you queries, letting your server run better and giving your site more room to deal with influxes of members etc before you have to upgrade your hardware.

Hope that clears things up for you =)

Iain

[kmohamed]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Not intended to speed up the page, it reduces mySQL queries.

You can see the sort of savings sites make here: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/vboptimisesites.php

It will have a large impact on page speed if your server is dealing with a lot of queries (i.e your traffic goes up for instance, or you have features/modifiations which add queries to your pages). If thats not the case, then it won't have a huge effect on page speed - but it will still save you queries, letting your server run better and giving your site more room to deal with influxes of members etc before you have to upgrade your hardware.

Hope that clears things up for you =)

Iain

i knew ,
it does something positive lol
thanx a lot your post is really helpful
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everything seemed to be working fine when i ran the test except it shows this message what should i so

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Your Opcache Operator extension is functioning, however it is unable to store data. Please check your extension configuration.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by kmohamed

i knew ,
it does something positive lol
thanx a lot your post is really helpful
----
everything seemed to be working fine when i ran the test except it shows this message what should i so

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Your Opcache Operator extension is functioning, however it is unable to store data. Please check your extension configuration.

I assume you're running xcache?

This isn't uncommon on XCache setups, you will need to set up the authentication properly (xcache has a really strange default setting)

To do that, see deceptors posts here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=137
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=141

Hope that helps!

To everyone else - Deceptor will help you with your issues when he gets online, I'm just doing what i can - Not my product.

Iain

[Xencored]

Works fine!
Thanks