The Yandex system in Russia is the most significant. This is not only a convenient search engine, but also a cloud data storage, e-mail, navigation maps, taxi service and much more. And where is all this volume of system information stored? Where is the Yandex server physically located? In this article we will try to find out.
What does Yandex say?
A sad fact: representatives of the corporation itself do not indicate on their resources where the Yandex server is located physically. A wide audience knows only one fact - for the most part, data centers are open in Russia. Some of them are in the capital.
In addition, even the overwhelming majority of the company's employees do not know where exactly Yandex data centers are located. And getting there is difficult not only to an outsider, but even to an employee of this corporation.
Where was the first Yandex server
But employees and company representatives willingly share their stories. Where was the main Yandex server in 1997 when the site was launched? You will be surprised, but he just stood under the table at one of the first developers - D. Teyblum. Shortly after opening the site, Yandex.ru needed to install a second server, and then a third one. At that time, Yandex employees thought about expanding.
No, it was not about opening your own data center. This was not necessary: the Yandex team was counted by only ten employees, and 4 GB of SCSI disk was enough to fit the index of the entire Russian-speaking Internet. Why, in the first three years of the resource’s operation, the servers were located in the same rack of the MTU-Intel data center.
In 2000, when Yandex was created, it already rented four racks from this company. These are 40 personal servers. By the way, they became the basis for their own data center, which was opened in the first resource office, located on ul. Vavilova in Moscow (Computing Center RAS - Russian Academy of Sciences).
Today, this "server" is no longer functioning. Modern Yandex supports a large-scale network of data centers that operate independently of offices. It is they who are currently helping users of the resource 24 hours a day and 7 days a week to have high-speed access to the necessary information. Just think, today the Yandex Operations Department installs 2-3 servers a day in its own data centers! And this indicator is not final - the corporation does not think to stop in its development.
What is Yandex data center?
Where the Yandex.Disk server is located, the company representatives, alas, will not tell us. But they are happy to tell what their standard data center looks like from the inside:
- The most important and most part is the racks. In one of them you can install up to 80 servers.
- There are strictly two wires connected to each server. One is for control, the other is for transmitting information.
- All components of the network center are interconnected by optical wires, which are laid so neatly that they will envy any perfectionist.
- Two rows of server racks are combined into one module. Between them is a passage for data center specialists.
- The cooling and ventilation system of the entire system, as well as the electrical distribution panels of the energy module, are very important.
- A mandatory part of the data center is flywheels, which accumulate energy in themselves in case of a sudden outage. They will provide the opportunity to start diesels in an emergency.
- Near the center is a fuel storage.
- In any such "server" fire extinguishing system is provided.
How to find company servers
If you yourself want to determine where the Yandex server is located, then for these purposes it is easier to install the appropriate software on your computer. Users advise the program Traceroute, Neotrace. We recommend that you install such software only if you are 100% sure of its security.
According to those who tested the application, these programs provide comprehensive information about the physical location of the Google, Yahoo, Yandex servers. The user can access the map, information about the coordinates of the object (longitude, latitude), its address.
Where exactly in Russia are Yandex servers
In conclusion, we present information from users who have independently ascertained the location of the system’s servers. However, these data are unofficial, so trusting them 100% does not make sense.
So where is the Yandex server? All found data centers are located in Moscow:
- St. Vavilova, 40a.
- St. Red Banner, 2.
- St. Red Banner, 12.
- St. Kurchatov, 1.
- St. Nezhdanova, 2a.
Some researchers claim that the servers are located in the capital also on the street. Leo Tolstov and on the street Scooter, as well as in the city of Ivanteyevka.
Where exactly the Yandex servers are located, the general public is not known for certain. Representatives of the company claim that most of their data centers are concentrated in the Russian Federation. Users offer programs that can determine the exact (to the address) location of the servers of a particular resource, and even share the results of their research on the Web.