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)

[DragonByte Tech]

We're using PHP 5.3.5 on our site with no problems
Do you have suhosin installed? That's been known to cause the problems you're describing.


Fillip

[Taringa! CS]

Nope, it's not installed.

Everything was fine since we upgrade our server (Product was working)

Matias

[DragonByte Tech]

Unless you can give me some form of error message either from PHP or from Apache's error log, there's not much I can do I'm afraid


Fillip

[Taringa! CS]

When running system test:

Running Test: Connection to xcache
Test completed successfully
Running Test: Store Cache
Test completed successfully
Running Test: Fetch Cache
Test completed successfully
Running Test: Flush Cache

And i'm getting an alert with this message

"AJAX Failure

Internal Server Error"

When trying to flush cache i'm getting no message (Insted of the cache flushed fine one)

I'm viewing apache logs and nothing related to this it's saved...

Thanks

Matias

[DragonByte Tech]

Can you please install Firebug (a Firefox extension) and use that to get a more complete error message from the AJAX request that returned the failure?

After installing it, click its icon, then Console, then run the test again. It should colour red the AJAX request that fails.

Fillip

[Taringa! CS]

After a little testing, i found that the problem it's related to xcache, using memcache i'm not getting that error...

[DragonByte Tech]

Alright, glad it worked out
Memcached is a solid piece of software, we're using it on DragonByte Tech and both sites ran by it is having no problems


Fillip

[TeknoSounds]

Originally Posted by Taringa! CS

After a little testing, i found that the problem it's related to xcache, using memcache i'm not getting that error...

is it a problem between xcache and php 5.3.5?
Am using php 5.3.2 still and xcache 1.3.0 and no issues here that I've noticed.

I notice on the xcache site 1.3.1 came out in Oct, http://xcache.lighttpd.net/wiki/Release-1.3.1

[gibigbig]

this is a very good script. im using the lite version and xcache on vb 4.1.0 and it the speed was so noticeably faster. i tested with a stress script, 500 queries took about 8-15 seconds to output data, with this installed, it takes ~1 always.

Great job DBtech team. I wish i could afford the premium version but unfortunately i cant atm. I already spent my money on your vB Shop 1.2.1

Btw, why aren't there any updates for the shop? its taking pretty long to come up with an update.

[DragonByte Tech]

Thanks for your kind words

The reason why vBShop has been left in the cold for so long is because we've been absolutely swamped with other projects and updates.
Rest assured that vBShop is on the top of the update priority; we have one new product to release and then we will update vBShop


Fillip