[LINK] another website fiasco - fire alert website

[Stephen Edgar]

Richard,

Both URL's are correct and used for different purposes.

This is for an overview ie. 'Incident Summary'
http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/incidents/incident_summary.htm
(ALT RSS LINK http://osom.cfa.vic.gov.au/public/osom/IN_COMING.rss)


Specific Warnings and Advice for 'active' fires/threats
http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/incidents/warnings_advice.htm
(ALT RSS LINK http://osom.cfa.vic.gov.au/public/osom/websites.rss)

The alternate RSS links at 'osom' (One Source, One Message) applies to both CFA & DSE websites and these are served by a different web server to that of the CFA & DSE websites and serve as a good alternative when the CFA/DSE web sites are down.

There have also been numerous outages today & yesterday for the CFA website.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/cfa-website-glitch-as-temperatures-soar-20100110-m0ob.html

<snip>
The Country Fire Authority's website experienced technical difficulties this morning as Victoria faced its first day of catastrophic fire conditions.

CFA chief officer Russell Rees said there was a ''minor technical problem'' on the website that was fixed ''in a matter of minutes''. 

He said the CFA was implementing a new system and technical staff were watching it ''very closely''.

However, people were urged to monitor multiple systems including websites, the bushfire information line and radio to stay informed.
</snip>


Cheers,

Stephen Edgar



-----Original Message-----
From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Richard Archer
Sent: Monday, 11 January 2010 3:33 PM
To: link at anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: [LINK] another website fiasco - fire alert website

At 3:16 PM +1100 11/1/10, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/incidents/incident_updates.htm
>that is supposed to be the "incident updates" page for the Victorian
>CFA.

That URL was the page for major incidents last summer.

This summer there is a summary page for major incidents here:
http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/incidents/warnings_advice.htm

Plus each incident has its own page containing further info.

Personally, I have been very impressed with the CFA site
this year. They have added a lot of extra features and
the site presents a lot more information and is updated
much more frequently than the last few summers. There
are specific write-ups on incidents that wouldn't have
rated a mention on the "major incidents" page last year
with hourly updates when the situation or conditions
change.

It remains to be seen how it handles the load under
pressure of a number of simultaneous major fires.

 ...R.
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