Data centers
These are data centers used by the Wikimedia Foundation, in which it has colo space where its operates server clusters .
To read about the history behind current and previous hosting facilities and technology choices, see " Wikimedia Foundation#Technology " on Wikipedia, and Wikimedia servers on Meta-Wiki.
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Present
"Caching" data centers serve as points of presence (PoP) for the Wikimedia CDN .
"Application" data centers host MediaWiki servers, databases, and other services.
| Nr | Name | Location | Role | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
#1
|
Eqiad | Ashburn, Virginia, USA | Application + Caching | 2010 |
#2
|
Codfw | Carrollton, Texas, USA | Application + Caching | 2014 |
#3
|
Esams | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Caching | 2005? [ 1 ] |
#4
|
Ulsfo | San Francisco, California, USA | Caching | 2014 [ 2 ] |
#5
|
Eqsin | Singapore | Caching | 2017 [ 3 ] |
#6
|
Drmrs | Marseille, France | Caching | 2022 [ 4 ] |
#7
|
Magru | São Paulo, Brazil | Caching | 2024 [ 5 ] |
| Name | Location | Role | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| eqord | Chicago, Illinois, United States (North America) | Networking | 2015 [ 6 ] [ 7 ] |
| eqdfw | Dallas, Texas, United States (North America) | Networking | 2015 [ 6 ] [ 7 ] |
Past
| Name | Location | Usage | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pmtpa | Tampa, Florida, United States | Core services | 2004 – 2014 |
| Yaseo | Seoul, South Korea | Core services (zhwiki, kowiki) | 2005 – 2009 [ 8 ] [ 9 ] |
| Lopar | Paris, France | Edge caching | 2005 |
| San Diego | San Diego, California, United States | "The server" | 2001 – 2004 |
| Name | Location | Role | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| sdtpa | Tampa, Florida, United States | Networking (for pmtpa ) | 2004 – 2014 |
See also
- SRE/Infrastructure naming conventions#Data centers
- Infographics - server layout diagrams
Further reading
- Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia by Guillaume Paumier, Wikimedia Blog, 2013.
- Wikimedia Foundation selects CyrusOne in Dallas as new data center by Mark Bergsma, Wikimedia Blog, 2014.
- Making Wikimedia sites faster — our new data center , Wikimedia Blog, 2014.
- A new data center in Singapore by Brandon Black, Wikimedia Blog, 2018.
- Building DReaMeRS: How and why we opened a datacenter in France by Arzhel Younsi, Wikimedia Techblog, 2022.
- The journey to open our first data center in South America , Wikimedia Diff blog, 2024.
References
- ↑ First edit to "Kennisnet rackspace" on Wikitech , Mark Bergsma, 31 May 2005.
- ↑ "ULSFO going online", Deployments calendar , Week of 3 February 2014.
- ↑ T156028: Name Asia cache DC , Brandon Black, 26 September 2017.
- ↑ T282787: Configuration for new drmrs datacenter , Brandon Black, 13 May 2021.
- ↑ T346722: South America POP , Arzhel Younsi.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 WMF Infrastructure Quarterly Review 2015 FQ1 , page 66 "TechOps - Appendix", 15 October 2015
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 T91077: EQDFW/EQORD Deployment , Wikimedia Phabricator, 27 February 2015
- ↑ Started on September 2005 . Oldest mention in Server admin log , 9 September 2005.
- ↑ "Decommissioned all yaseo servers", Server admin log , 23 July 2009.