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.
Present
One of the Wikimedia server racks in Texas (Codfw ).
Servers in Virginia, USA (Eqiad ).
| 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
|
2009[1]
|
#4
|
Ulsfo
|
San Francisco, California, USA
|
Caching
|
2014[2]
|
#5
|
Eqsin
|
Singapore
|
Caching
|
2017[3]
|
#6
|
Drmrs
|
Marseille, France
|
Caching
|
2022[4]
|
Networking
| Name
|
Location
|
Role
|
Since
|
| knams
|
Amsterdam, Netherlands (Europe)
|
Networking (for esams)
|
2005?[5]
|
| 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
|
Networking
| Name
|
Location
|
Role
|
Since
|
| sdtpa
|
Tampa, Florida, United States
|
Networking (for pmtpa)
|
2004 – 2014
|
See also
References
- ↑ Evoswitch helps us improve project access in Europe and beyond (22 June 2009), Jay Walsh, Wikimedia Blog.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kennisnet_rackspace&oldid=13519
- ↑ 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.
