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Data center locations
eqiad data center
(Ashburn, USA)
codfw data center
(Dallas, USA)
esams data center
(Amsterdam, NL)
ulsfo data center
(San Francisco, USA)
eqsin data center
(Singapore, SG)
drmrs data center
(Marseille, FR)
magru data center
(São Paulo, BR)
Data center operations
Common data center spec
Platform-specific doc
Naming conventions
Networking
Global traffic routing
MediaWiki SRE
MediaWiki Engineering
Multimedia
Data Engineering
SRE Data Persistence
SRE Infra Foundations
SRE Observability
Wikidata Platform
Wikimedia Performance
Event Platform
Release Engineering
Fundraising
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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.
Map of Wikimedia Foundation
data centers
codfw
eqiad
esams
ulsfo
eqsin
drmrs
magru
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Present
One of the Wikimedia server racks in Texas (
Codfw
).
Servers in Virginia, USA (
Eqiad
).
"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?
#4
Ulsfo
San Francisco, California, USA
Caching
2014
#5
Eqsin
Singapore
Caching
2017
#6
Drmrs
Marseille, France
Caching
2022
#7
Magru
São Paulo, Brazil
Caching
2024
Networking
Name
Location
Role
Since
eqord
Chicago, Illinois, United States (North America)
Networking
2015
eqdfw
Dallas, Texas, United States (North America)
Networking
2015
Past
Name
Location
Usage
Years
Pmtpa
Tampa, Florida, United States
Core services
2004 – 2014
Yaseo
Seoul, South Korea
Core services (zhwiki, kowiki)
2005 – 2009
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
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.
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