[Solved] IP Blocked....

[skullys]

Login Gives Me This Message... Your IP has been blocked!

The IP address 75.110.162.66 has been blocked for an unknown reason. You won't be able to continue to cPanel until an admin unblocks you. To request that your IP be unblocked please visit

 

[Krydos]

Unblocked. You were blocked for having 45 simultaneous connections open to the server. When you have that many connections open it means other users may not be able to connect or you may cause downtime for other people's websites.

[skullys]

45 simultaneous connections open to the server...

How is that possible when I haven't added or changed anything?

I was simply checking mail and noticed that the server wasn't responding and then discovered IP block.

 

 

[Krydos]

Depending on how your site is set up you can get a lot of connections simply from opening your homepage. With http1.1 each resource is another connection. So the base html is 1. Maybe you have 5 separate css files, that's 6. Maybe you have 10 javascript files, now you're up to 16 already. All it takes from there is 29 images, and you're at 45. All those separate http1.1 connections cause overhead and cause your site to load slowly because each connection has to negotiate ssl, and send headers, etc. You can inline your html, css, and javascript, and even minify them to save some whitespace and comment bandwidth as well as reducing your connections from 16 to 1 in my example. For the images you can create image sprites where you clump all the images together into one big image and then use css to slice the sprites off once the whole image has been downloaded to the browser. Techincally it's even possible to inline images as base64 encoded strings within your html, but most people don't go that far. So, just optimizing your homepage for speed like this can reduce your connections in my rather extreme example from 45 down to 1 or 2. You can tell how many connections your homepage uses by opening the F12 menu, and going to the network tab. Then refresh your page and each line that appears in the network tab is a connection.

[skullys]

Interesting considering I'm using offsite (weebly etc.) locations for website content and simply redirecting domains from my heliohost acct.

Edited October 25, 2020 by skullys

[Krydos]

Oh, I have no idea then. I didn't look at your site before I wrote all that. Those were just guesses based on what we usually see in most cases.