Board Optimization - [DBTech] vB Optimise v2 (vB4)

vB Optimise Lite

Professional version & feature list available @ www.DragonByte-Tech.com
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

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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).
• [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like statistics Caching
  Caches statistics page for the Advanced Post Thanks / Like mod by DBTech.
• [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging statistics Caching
  Caches statistics page for the Advanced User Tagging mod by DBTech.
• 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.
• Forum Resource Statistic
  Shows off vB Optimise resource saving statistics directly within forumhome statistics.
• 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.

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.
• "Who Has Read Thread" Cache (4.2.0+)
  Caches Show Thread "Who Has Read Thread" to remove a query and allow larger sites to display this data without impact.
• "Who Has Visited Forum" Cache (4.2.0+)
  Caches Forum Home "Who Has Visited Forum" to remove a 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.
• CDN Integration
  vB Optimise now integrates with popular CDN systems: Amazon S3, Origin Pull or Mirror, Rackspace Cloud, Remote Server (custom CDN) and Windows Azure.
• Plugin Cache
  Stores all plugins in a PHP file, improving performance for plugin execution
• ....and more!

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)

Q: It says my opcode cacher can't store data?
A: Check to see you're using a supported Apache handler if you're using Apache: http://www.thecpaneladmin.com/wp-con...phandlers2.png

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[TheAllusionist]

This plugin seems to not allow me to save changes in the backend as far as plugins go, but I could disable it and make the changes. So I updated to 2.5 and now I can't disable or uninstall it or make changes to it's setting to enable xCache authentication or even shut it off. It also seems if I manually remove the files my site just has white screens front end and back end.

Any advice?

[DragonByte Tech]

Add

PHP Code:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); 


to config.php directly beneath <?php then you can correct the configuration issues


Fillip

[TheAllusionist]

Thank you, that allowed me to make changes.

[tsptom]

Originally Posted by tsptom

I have had this installed for a few weeks and I just noticed this on my forum home page...

Does this ever get reset or is it possible that vboptimise has not saved us any queries? All settings are showing as optimal and all test complete successfully.

Also, it may be a coincidence, but since installing, the number of guests has jumped 5 X (hundreds) at any given time. I thought that was strange. For the record I did install a few mods around the same time.

Thanks

A little follow up. I finally decided to uninstall and re-install and it is working now. In just 2+ days I now see:

MySQL Queries vB Optimise has saved this forum 2,012,918

I haven't noticed any positive difference in performance but I have to assume that 2 million saved queries is doing something positive.

[DragonByte Tech]

It won't really provide a noticeable difference in performance unless you have a very high concurrent users count, I'm glad you got it working


Fillip

[tsptom]

It's actually been slower, but perhaps it is a coincidence? I just got an email from one of my moderators (who didn't know I installed this):

"The site has been running very slow for me today. Is that just on my end or have you noticed also? Other sites seem to work fine. I'm also using Chrome."

I may have to disable to see if it makes any difference.

[DragonByte Tech]

It could be, we have had no reports of vB Optimise slowing down page loads before


Fillip

[tsptom]

My forum has indeed been very bogged down since installing, but we did have some pretty high traffic so it seems that would be more likely the reason. Optimise has saved us 4.4 million queries in just a few days.

I see this feature in the Pro version:

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.

This may be what I'm looking for since a lot of our visitors are guests. If 75% of our visitors are guests, would you be confident that this "90%" savings in CPU usage from guests would be our solution? I'm looking to upgrade the server but considering trying this first. Although the server upgrade might be cheaper.

[DragonByte Tech]

There's zero way for me to confidently say one way or the other, but I do know that if the majority of your users are guests then you would see a major increase in performance relative to the guest:member ratio


Fillip

[Chadi]

Can someone please help me?

Getting this error after converting to CloudLinux (confirmed its APC though, since sites work after I remove APC info from php.ini)

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class vb_optimise_apc in /home/user/public_html/dbtech/vboptimise/includes/operators/apc.php on line 3

PHP.ini had this:

[APC]
extension="apc.so"
apc.enabled = 1
apc.shm_segments = 1
apc.shm_size = 512
apc.max_file_size = 10M
apc.stat=1
apc.include_once_override = 0
extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_sqlite.so
extension=sqlite.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so
zend_extension="/usr/local/Zend/lib/Guard-5.5.0/php-5.3.x/ZendGuardLoader.so"

PHP -V Output:

PHP 5.3.15 (cli) (built: Aug 15 2012 15:46:52) Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies with eAccelerator v0.9.6.1, Copyright (c) 2004-2010 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator with the ionCube PHP Loader v4.2.2, Copyright (c) 2002-2012, by ionCube Ltd., and with Zend Guard Loader v3.3, Copyright (c) 1998-2010, by Zend Technologies