Question Moving to new server, can now stop using file cache...

[Gadget_Guy]

Hi,

I have been using the pro version of Optimize for a long time now.

The site has been on a Shared Platform that did not allow for anything "extra" to be loaded onto it. So up till now we have just been using filecache

Our site has now become large enough to move to VPS and we can now load "something" to do caching.

I see my options are:

memcache
APC
eAccelerator
Xcache


So the question becomes..... which is the better option to go with?

I also am going to need someone to load if for me as I have no Linux expertise....

I tried searching and googling but I can't get any real answer as to what I should do.

So I figured I would ask here ... the people that make the software.

Do you also offer installation services?


Thanks,

D.

 

[Fillip H.]

In my experience, XCache is superior, but APC comes as a close second. eAccelerator is not currently supported by vBulletin and as such is not recommended.

APC can be installed by logging on to a SSH terminal as root and then run pecl install apc.

We do offer installation services but they normally don't cover the server setup, just the mod itself. However I'm sure we can make an exception
You can find the Professional Installation service in the AddOns for the vBO product in the product info page

 

[Gadget_Guy]

If I use xCache... do I modify my vBulletin config.php file in this section:


// ****** 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';



D.

 

[Fillip H.]

Yeah, you'd uncomment the $config line and change it to vB_Datastore_XCache.