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]

Hey logic, unfortunately that addon doesn't work too well since it doesn't enable me to see all the debug messages, which is why it's best to do it from config

[logicuk]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

Hey logic, unfortunately that addon doesn't work too well since it doesn't enable me to see all the debug messages, which is why it's best to do it from config

ok that will be done in 2secs

[Deceptor]

Thanks logic, that did the trick.

Your issue is you're running vBA CMPS v3.0.1, this will only work 3.1.0 I'm afraid, but if you update it'll start caching your modules then, but as I said before, don't go cache all modules, read the FAQ

[logicuk]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

Thanks logic, that did the trick.

Your issue is you're running vBA CMPS v3.0.1, this will only work 3.1.0 I'm afraid, but if you update it'll start caching your modules then, but as I said before, don't go cache all modules, read the FAQ

Ahh ok thanks

if i update vba will it break any of my custom mods?

[Deceptor]

You'd have to check with vBA really, I'm not sure what changed between 3.0.1 to 3.1.0.

[logicuk]

Originally Posted by Deceptor

You'd have to check with vBA really, I'm not sure what changed between 3.0.1 to 3.1.0.

ok thanks im looking into upgrading and will get back to you when ive done it,

thanks again

[Deceptor]

No problem, if you get upgraded fine, let me know how it goes

[tmc]

I got down to 6 queries after caching the modules... How'd you get down to 5?

Also, "Today's Birthdays" doesn't like it very much. The list of names shows up outside of the module.

Sort of like so:

Username (21)

``````````````````````|
Today's Birthdays ----|
______________________|

Not that it matters much to me.. I don't use that module on my production site. But just putting it out there.

I also notice this breaks the alternating colors of the modules. Some of Brian's modules remember the last "ALT" color and so what should be ALT1 ends up being ALT2 if, say, the module before it becomes cached.

I guess not much you can do about that though.

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Edit: And nothing shows up in the Breadcrumb on the cmps_index page... I only get the "" image.

[Deceptor]

tmc - Some of the default vBA modules act weird because of variables passed, as for getting down to 5 queries, look at my FAQ to see which modules I cached. There may be something else causing your 6th query since I have nothing else on the test forum other than vB Optimise and vBAdvanced.

As for the alternating colours, I'll see what I can do to patch that, could you tell me how to replicate the issue?

As for the reduction, 6 queries sounds great, how many was it before vB Optimise?

[tmc]

Eek. You're too fast. I posted another issue in my previous post.

There's nothing to replicate with the alternating row colors.. You'll just notice that a module is one color when the page is uncached (say ALT1) and it becomes ALT2 the next time the page is cached.