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)

[crashys]

After installing product, activated xcache, change to cache template and styles and got this lovelly error.

Now i can't even login to my forum... forum is dead.... HELP!!


Warning: xcache_get() [function.xcache-get]: xcache.var_size is either 0 or too small to enable var data caching in [path]/vboptimise/core/class_operator_xcache.php on line 21

[Deceptor]

Originally Posted by crashys

After installing product, activated xcache, change to cache template and styles and got this lovelly error.

Now i can't even login to my forum... forum is dead.... HELP!!


Warning: xcache_get() [function.xcache-get]: xcache.var_size is either 0 or too small to enable var data caching in [path]/vboptimise/core/class_operator_xcache.php on line 21

Resolved this issue over at DBTech, problem was a XCache configuration issue on the server-end, it's all working now

[Leo Brazil]

May be it's kinda off topic but here it goes anyway.

Question: I don't have any kind of cache or accelerator system installed on my server yet. What you guys recomend ? Considering also easy-to-install, performance and so on and of course, a system that this mod would bring me the best performance from other.

[Big-Pete]

Just tried the updated version as I loved this when we were using vb3x and the new updated version works perfectly!! Thanks so much!!

Originally Posted by Leo Brazil

Question: I don't have any kind of cache or accelerator system installed on my server yet. What you guys recomend ?

I've only ever really used xcache.. Might be worth asking on the server optimization forum over at vbulletin.com

[Megatr0n]

Deceptor, can you please check your e-mails and get to me when you can, thanks!

[Deceptor]

Originally Posted by Leo Brazil

May be it's kinda off topic but here it goes anyway.

Question: I don't have any kind of cache or accelerator system installed on my server yet. What you guys recomend ? Considering also easy-to-install, performance and so on and of course, a system that this mod would bring me the best performance from other.

XCache is favoured mostly for vBulletin installs, personally I like to have XCache installed to cache php scripts normally, but Memcache to handle variables for the vB datastore/vB Optimise.

@Megatron - Will do

[Megatr0n]

MegaDork is waiting!

[lemonadesoda]

Deceptor, can I ask you a similar which-accelerator question? My situation is probably different to many:

1./ We run a private vB install. It is used by a bunch of contractors and some clients working together on joint projects. It is essentially a project communication tool.

2./ We very rarely have more than 10 people on simultaneously, so we aren't suffering from server CPU/disk/database constraints, BUT

3./ The server is internet bandwidth limited - due to where/how we host, and the internet connection shares bandwidth with VoIP services.

4./ vB 4.x seems to have more HTML/PHP/CSS overhead than vB 3.x. and doesn't perform quite as sweetly, but now we have upgraded, we aren't going back.

What would you suggest to improve the user's experience? Would this mod help? Or for our situation, would you recommend something different?

Thanks in advance.

[Deceptor]

Really the only bandwidth vBOptimise does save is internally, and that's only if you have a seperate database server (traffic between web->db).

I don't think this mod is suited for such a scenario (this is aimed at server load), I'd probably just make sure css is served as files as such, perhaps even get a cheap CDN server to serve static content like images/javascript/etc...

[Megatr0n]

Did you recieve it?

Sorry to gate-crash the thread like this but not seen you on MSN lately!