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Wikipedia Adds European Data Center
Data Center Knowledge (Jun 22 2009)
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The creators of Wikipedia will add about 50 servers in a new European traffic hub in a “green” data center in Amsterdam, the company said today. The Wikimedia Foundation has signed a contract with EvoSwitch, which will donate more than 300,000 euros (about $415,000) of in-kind support in bandwidth and hosting services.
The Wikipedia site is hosted on about 300 servers in a primary data center in Tampa, Fla. The 50 servers at the EvoSwitch data center in Amsterdam will provide content storage and delivery. Amsterdam is one of the world’s most important network hubs, with hundreds of European networks exchanging traffic in the city’s data centers.
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