Knobby22
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This organistion has the audacity to think they are capable of reporting accurate data to the government!
Edit: Good grief, I've posted in the general chat section!
A little sick?
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Must be all those poor people on the copper network clogging up the band width
And they did not realise this was going to happen? DOUBLE
People trying to complete the census online have been met with numerous error messages, told the system is "overloaded", and advised to call back in two days when they phone a hotline for information.
By 8pm on Tuesday evening, it appeared the website abs.gov.au had crashed entirely, as an estimated 16 million people were due to log on to complete the census.
The website hosting the first online version of the Australian census has gone down as thousands of people around the country attempted to complete the survey.
The Federal Government says work is underway to fix a major outage affecting the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website this evening.
The ABC has been inundated with reports of the census website crashing or failing to load, with many pointing the finger at Australia's beleaguered broadband network for the outages.
"The site just cannot be reached. The phones do not answer and neither does the online messaging," one complainant wrote, while Twitter lit up with #CensusFail.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-09/abs-website-inaccessible-on-census-night/7711652
Of course you have to trust these jokers with your data and be surprised if you have a stolen identity in the next year;11:30pm and still not working.
Let me guess. Someone didn't do the maths and work out that the site needed to be able to cope with at least 500,000 people logged in all at once?
Who knows the website might crash at 8PM when you got a few million doing it.
What are the odds of a server crash at 6:30pm on census night.
Good point, a lot of people might have done the same. Obviously something they didn't think about.Don't thunk I can even complete the thing. I don't recall receiving nuffin in the mail from the ABS but then it seems it was a generic letter such as "To the householder." If so, it's probably been recycled as waste as I tend to look at to whom a letter is addressed not who it's from. That stuff is just advertising junk to me so I immediately throw it out.
This organisation had five years to prepare for this census. What a mess! I haven't received any notice and I can't get through on the phone to order a form without the nine-digit code. Why didn't they print a few million forms and distribute them to Post Offices or newsagents?
This organistion has the audacity to think they are capable of reporting accurate data to the government!
I was out by an hour, they shut the site down at 7:30pmWhat are the odds of a server crash at 6:30pm on census night...
And now there is a statement by the chief statistician it was taken off line as a result of hacking from overseas sources.
Aside from that it probably would have crashed anyway as it is probable someone assumed a smooth load over 24 hours whereas, in reality, the attitude of many is to get on-line once they got home from work and get the matter over and done with. So did anybody consider a stress test with say 8 million or more on-line at the same time? Highly likely the answer is no; so big fail.
I'm sure there will be plenty meetings with lots of stern faces ... that alone should sort out the problem, not withstanding the technological solution.
Pretty sure "cyber attack" is code for SNAFU and is probably traceable back to the LNP's retirement home for their cronies = Telstra .... NBN anyone?
First the ABS replied the website was working just as expected. Then they shifted the fault back onto the public, suggesting the issue was probably people using out-of-date browsers or maybe we were all typing in the wrong web address. Silly Australians!
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