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)

[bahisyeri]

It has some problems with phrase caching, but other options working good but i prefer old hacks from trigunflame, like plugin accelerator anyway nice job

[lolo?]

hy Deceptor
i have a small problem with recent thread on vba if i activate the cache doest aplly permission group if i apply on welcome block i'm loggin with an other user
Thanks for your work

[Amenadiel]

it seems that WOL caching does not work with VB 3.7.3
I get this error on forumhome only:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.3:

Invalid SQL:

		SELECT
			user.username, (user.options & 512) AS invisible, user.usergroupid,
			session.userid, session.inforum, session.lastactivity, session.useragent,
			IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid
		FROM vb_session AS session
		LEFT JOIN vb_user AS user ON(user.userid = session.userid)
		WHERE session.lastactivity >;

[logicuk]

Originally Posted by Amenadiel

it seems that WOL caching does not work with VB 3.7.3
I get this error on forumhome only:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.3:

Invalid SQL:

		SELECT
			user.username, (user.options & 512) AS invisible, user.usergroupid,
			session.userid, session.inforum, session.lastactivity, session.useragent,
			IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid
		FROM vb_session AS session
		LEFT JOIN vb_user AS user ON(user.userid = session.userid)
		WHERE session.lastactivity >;

Works for me fine on 3.7.2

[NolF]

Originally Posted by lolo?

hy Deceptor
i have a small problem with recent thread on vba if i activate the cache doest aplly permission group if i apply on welcome block i'm loggin with an other user
Thanks for your work

You are only supposed to activate the cache for modules that are not usergroup dependent because of the problem you just mentioned

Originally Posted by princeedward

...but don't know if it's really working fine or enough... with my debug report below...as i see it...only FileCache Setup only has a good result...

Did you have said softwares installed? In other words did you have Xcache installed when selecting XCache?

[thedark1]

man this is pretty fast, I'm using it with xcache and the forum is loading quick ... will keep testing it out to see if any problems spring up....

thanks

[Chadi]

I need a bit of help here please.

vB Optimise: You have selected a cache method that vB Optimise has detected you cannot use, this may be because the extension required is either not installed or active on your server.

I get that on both eaccelerator, yet it was compiled in Apache (along with Zend Accelerator).

I'm using Cpanel / Centos / PHP 5.

My vbconfig:

     // ****** DATASTORE CACHE CONFIGURATION *****
    // Here you can configure different methods for caching datastore items.
    // vB_Datastore_Filecache  - to use includes/datastore/datastore_cache.php
    // vB_Datastore_APC - to use APC
    // vB_Datastore_XCache - to use XCache
    // vB_Datastore_Memcached - to use a Memcache server, more configuration below
// $config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Filecache';

    // ******** DATASTORE PREFIX ******
    // If you are using a PHP Caching system (APC, XCache, eAccelerator) with more
    // than one set of forums installed on your host, you *may* need to use a prefix
    // so that they do not try to use the same variable within the cache.
    // This works in a similar manner to the database table prefix.
// $config['Datastore']['prefix'] = '';

    // It is also necessary to specify the hostname or IP address and the port the server is listening on
/*
$config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Memcached';
$i = 0;
// First Server
$i++;
$config['Misc']['memcacheserver'][$i]        = '127.0.0.1';
$config['Misc']['memcacheport'][$i]            = 11211;
$config['Misc']['memcachepersistent'][$i]    = true;
$config['Misc']['memcacheweight'][$i]        = 1;
$config['Misc']['memcachetimeout'][$i]        = 1;
$config['Misc']['memcacheretry_interval'][$i] = 15;
*/

Eaccelerator settings in php.ini

[eAccelerator]
extension="eaccelerator.so"
eaccelerator.shm_size="256"
eaccelerator.cache_dir="/tmp/eaccelerator"
eaccelerator.enable="1"
eaccelerator.optimizer="1"
eaccelerator.check_mtime="1"
eaccelerator.debug="0"
eaccelerator.filter=""
eaccelerator.shm_max="0"
eaccelerator.shm_ttl="0"
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period="0"
eaccelerator.shm_only="0"
eaccelerator.compress="1"
eaccelerator.compress_level="9"

Thanks.

[ezak]

thanks its nice mod and *installed*

but I want to know something
if I want to change the dir for ./vboptimise to other place out off public_html
for security reason as the folder is 0777

or make an option to set the dir for vboptimise cache as the attachment place

[princeedward]

Originally Posted by NolF

Did you have said softwares installed? In other words did you have Xcache installed when selecting XCache?

...thanks for the reply bro...yeah it's my mistake...don't have XCache installed to my cpanel...i'm on a shared hosting only...can't have it on there...only if i get VPS...so what you think is the setup i must used on this one for my shared host?...

best regards...

[snakes1100]

Originally Posted by chadi

I need a bit of help here please.

vB Optimise: You have selected a cache method that vB Optimise has detected you cannot use, this may be because the extension required is either not installed or active on your server.

I get that on both eaccelerator, yet it was compiled in Apache (along with Zend Accelerator).

I'm using Cpanel / Centos / PHP 5.

My vbconfig:

Thanks.

Did you check your phpinfo and make sure eaccelerator is actually loaded?