Hosting Specifications

One of the most important components for our hosted clients is the host system speed and 24 hour up time. We take our hosting seriously. Barefoot's hosting company manages systems for over 600 companies including a number of Fortune 500 companies like ICG, Time Warner Telecom, Ameritech, Time Warner Cable, Qwest Communications, Cogent Communications and XO Communications.

The servers are housed in a secure complex with a state of the art security and climate control system, power redundancy system capable of dealing with power outages or flaps up to 36 hours and a system that self tests it ablities every 2 hours.The network is a completely transit free network meaning that all routes throughout the Internet are seen. Barefoot’s servers are located in a carrier neutral facility and Barefoot backs up clients data daily and operates redundant systems in case there is a hardware falure.

Barefoot server's are powered by Cisco routers running BGP to provide routing and failover. The connectivity is then passed off to a series of layer 3 switches that VLAN the network into segments. The system employs some of the strongest firewall technology in the industry for protection includes the blocking of the below listed ports. 2002, 1978, 4156, 3127, 135, 139, 445, 135, 445. The managed firewalls are hardware based solutions that sit between your machines and the internet. Barefoot sever's hosting company managed firewalls will allow you to restrict access to your machines/network and create private networks amongst your machines for added protection. All machines are monitored 24/7 via icmp and http and the team monitors BGP sessions as well as dns Servers and latency in the routes to major networks as well as our internal network.