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)

[NolF]

@logicuk
photopost pro doesn't seem to have hooks (vGallery is paid as well)
photoplog on the other hand has around 130 :O

[KevinL]

Originally Posted by Hostboard

Ok found a problem...

Installed, disabled in ACP options, left enabled in plugin manager section

Would not allow me to install another plugin (i.e. Blog 2.0)

As soon as I disabled this plugin on the plugin screen Blog installed perfectly.

Clear the cache before you try and upload anything and you'll be fine

[logicuk]

Hey Deceptor

So it seems photoplog pro has around 130 hooks

And vbclassifieds has 21 hooks

Think you can take another look when you get back

Big thanks your best friend logic

[doraj]

Hello Deceptor, I have enabled your Mod on my server and forum vBulletin from about...2 hours. Uhm, sincerely therefore I don't see particular improve or benefit..and I would like understand if something don't works well o there are other problems.
I don't have any mistakes, I use also XCache 1.2.2, enabled in config.php, and as settings of vBOptimize I enalbed quite all, I set off olny:

• vB Optimise: Custom Datastore Cache
• vB Optimise: vBAdvanced Integration

All others options are enabled

These are any results..:

Forumhome

* Page Generation 0.12597 seconds
* Memory Usage 4,261KB
* Queries Executed 11 (?)

After

# Page Generation 0.13052 seconds
# Memory Usage 4,405KB
# Queries Executed 11

Edit:
Any times I see my forum without background and other images...they missing suddenly, you can see it in 5 attachments

[Deceptor]

doraj - Enable debug mode on your forum, then check the debug messages in the bottom drop down menu to see if vB Optimise is successfully pulling from cache, or continually trying to set the cache from the database.

Logicuk - My bad, I will definately take a look again

Leo Brazil - What cache method do you have set? The hook there is designed to pull a method from vB Optimise and it seems that method is not being created and reverting back to the default vB Optimise class.

[logicuk]

Thanks D, i just sent you another pm also

(Deceptor for member of the month and mod of the month!)

[doraj]

Hello Deceptor, I tried to set enable all options and I made some screenshot, it seems works, perhaps only "Custom Datastore Cache" doensn't work well because I already use XCache Datastore in config.php, if fact it shows : No custom Datastore items to work with

Sincerely I hope to improving more the speed and reduce the memory usage, but at the moment the values before and after are more similar...It is normal for you?
I also read other member's statistic, and they has more improve than me.

These are others screens, thank you for your help

[Deceptor]

doraj - The custom datstore items are for mods usually, sometimes other modifications use init_startup to specify custom datastore items, and these are queried instead of using XCache or any other method specified in your config.php. vB Optimise fixes this however by forcing them to use your custom datastore method.

That said, your screens show vB Optimise is working fine. If you disable vB Optimise, you should see that your queries on your forum pages increase by 2, those 2 being styles and templates. As for memory usage/speed, I'm afraid this isn't designed to reduce memory, and impact is insignificant, as for speed, that depends on your connection to the server really. Also check the Optimal Settings, storing CSS as css files will help with speed

But to sum up, it is working, and it is reducing queries I'm sorry you can't "feel" the impact of this browsing your forum, but perhaps you could ask any of your members if they notice a difference

[logicuk]

Happy xmas Deceptor, will there be an update coming today, or we have to wait untill after xmas?

All the best logic

[Deceptor]

I'll be pushing out a little update that will allow a couple of other queries to be cached around vBulletin, and Merry Christmas