Presentation on the topic "Registration for Missing Persons from Tsunami in Thailand: Sharing experiences" in NSTDA Annual Conference 2005, Pathumthani, Thailand.

2. What is missingpersons.or.th?
Tsunami hit Thailand’s southern coastlines on
morning of December 26, 2004.
The missingpersons.or.th web site is created to
serve those who are in need to advertise for the
missing of their loved ones via internet.
This web site is fully supported by the Thai Red
Cross Society and NECTEC/NSTDA/MOST

3. Event-date references
December 2004 January 2005 February 2005
Timeline
Tsunami hits – No longer serve
Dec. 26 new registration –
Feb. 14 Cooperate with
CIFS in
matching
Start developing the process
system – Dec. 28,
using the system -
Dec. 30

4. สถาบันนิตวทยาศาสตร
ิ ิ
กระทรวงยุตธรรม
ิ
www.thaitsunami.com
กองพิสูจนหลักฐาน
ICT
สํานักงานตํารวจแหงชาติ
Missingpersons.or.th
Thai Red Cross + NECTEC/NSTDA/MOST
สํานักงานจังหวัดภูเก็ต ศูนยนเรนทร
(www.phuketitcity.com) กระทรวงสาธารณสุข
กรมปองกันและบรรเทาสาธารณภัย ศูนยชวยเหลือผูประสบภัย

กระทรวงมหาดไทย มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร

5. สถิติการเขาชมเว็บไซต (Truehits)
เดือน/ป Page View Unique IP
(pages)
ธันวาคม 2547 280,744 35,945
มกราคม 2548 3,746,628 281,672
กุมภาพันธ 2548 604,265 33,416
มีนาคม 2548 308,091 16,670

6. 1st Server for missingpersons.or.th
Server Specification
• Pentium3 1.4G (Dual)
• 2GBytes of RAM
• 10/100 LAN card
• SCSI disk storage 18 GB + 660 GB with RAID5 controller card
Software
FedoraCore 2 Linux
Apache Web Server (2.0.52) (Build in)
MySQL Server (3.23) (Build in)
phpMyAdmin, ssh

7. Problems with the 1st Server
Main memory was used almost 100%
Solution: add 2 more GB RAM handle
double number of transactions.

8. Problems with the 1st Server
Main memory was still used almost 100 %.
Solution: adjust configuration of Apache #vi
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
MaxClients was set to be 256 (maximum).

9. Problems with the 1st Server
One day had passed, number of accesses increased
exponentially.

10. 2nd Servers for missingpersons.or.th
Specification of new web server
• Intel XEON 3.06G (Dual)
• 5GBytes of RAM
• Two 10/100 LANcards
• SCSI disk storage 105 GB with RAID5 controller card
Software
FedoraCore 3 Linux
Apache Web Server (2.0.52) (Build in)
phpMyAdmin, ssh

11. Performances (1)
Memory usage was
better.
Also, memory usage
of buffer machine was
also better.

12. Performances (2)
Number of hits increased a lot.

13. Tools
OS: FedoraCore 3
Linux
Web Server: Apache
version 2.0.52
Programming: PHP
version 4.3.10
Database: MySQL

14. Main Page: Menus & Statistics

15. Main Page: Menus & Statistics

16. Missing Persons Page: Search & View

17. Missing Persons Page: Picture Gallery

18. Missing Persons Page: Registration (1)

19. Missing Persons Page: Registration (2)

20. Missing Persons Page: Found

21. Missing Persons Page: Add More Information

22. Survivors, Injured, Deceased

23. Survivors Database page

24. Injured Database page

25. Deceased Database page

26. Missingpersons’s Data
ประเภท จํานวนที่ จํานวนที่
ขอมูล ลงทะเบียน ทราบสถานะ
(คน)
ผูสูญหาย 4,702 656
ผูบาดเจ็บ
 18,362 -
ผูเสียชีวิต 1,618 -
ผูรอดชีวิต
 474 -

27. References
Registration for Missing Persons from Tsunami in
Thailand http://missingpersons.or.th/
Tsunami Relief Information
http://www.inet.co.th/tsunami/
Thai Web Statistics Center http://Truehits.net/
Multi-Processing Modules (MPMs) ;
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mpm.html
Apache 2.0 Documentation ;
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/
MySQL Reference Manual ;
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html

28. Acknowledgement
This website is supported by Government IT Services,
the Thai Red Cross, AX4A BV-The Netherlands,
Phuket Province, Thai Webmaster Association,
SIPA - Phuket IT City Internet Thailand PCL,
Project, Manager Online,
Department of Disaster TH-NIC Company Ltd.,
Prevention and Mitigation,
National Science and
Narenthorn Center, Technology Development
Thammasat University, Agency, Ministry of Science
Hydro and Agro-informatic and Technology.
Institute,

29. Project Manager
National Electronics and Computer
Technology Center (NECTEC), National
Science and Technology Development
Agency, Ministry of Science and Technology.
112 Thailand Science Park, Pahon Yothin
road, Klong 1, Klong Laung, Pathumthani
12120, THAILAND.
Tel. +662-564-6900 Fax. +662-564-6772
eMail: tsunami@nectec.or.th