LBCache can halve your server load with vBulletin?

I found this while searching on how to fix server issues I am having:

LBCache, the vBulletin cache

If you admin a server running vBulletin, it's almost certain that you'll have had problems with performance. There's plenty of scope for server tuning, and there are even a few modules for template caching; but what happens when you've implemented all of these, and performance is still poor?

LBCache is a PHP script which implements caching of forums and threads. Installation is fairly simple, the cache is highly configurable, and - best of all - the performance boost can be huge. Real-world tests on a busy server gave a halving of CPU load (and a similar reduction in the number of MySQL queries) when the cache was running. In situations where a handful of threads are being hit hard by visitors (eg if a thread has been Slashdotted), the reduction in load will be much greater. Benchmark figures below suggest that serving pages from the cache uses around one tenth of the CPU as non-cached pages.

The product claims to halve your server load and is written specifically with vBulletin in mind. Has anyone used this product and maybe have some feedback on it?

****Please note - I am in no way endorsing or plugging this product. I am simply trying to see if this is a viable option for my online community****

xcache + vboptimize are free. I see no reason to pay for this.

I run 3.6.12 and have actually had my site get slowed down by vboptimize. XCache doesn't support anything under v3.7.

Originally Posted by SteveRobWhatever

I run 3.6.12 and have actually had my site get slowed down by vboptimize. XCache doesn't support anything under v3.7.

You can run this patch i make use of it many time ago
datastore cache to XCache - boost your vBulletin - vBulletin.org Forum

Thanks for the link! I will have to get that setup ASAP!

I haven't tried this product either but am looking into it, the idea behind the product is something I use on a site of mine which sees heavy views but infrequent updates of the information, basically on load of page it checks if a compiled version of the page exists, if not it outputs the page to screen of viewer and to a "cache file", next viewer gets the cached file instead of running the 30+ queries again. since the info doesn't change that often(usually once every day or so) it comes in very handy. if this is like that but for guests only imho wouldn't we be seeing some improvement over the default method of building the page almost from scratch every time.

I bought this, it did nothing for my site. If anything worse and the support was terrible, like non-existant. Waste of time and money.

:( thanks for letting us know.

On a side note it would be great to see vbseo include more features to reduce db queries and other bits and pieces to improve the vB code and page load speed. What with Google pushing page speed as a ranking factor now more than ever.