how do you take a website off of the internet? i have been tasked by my local golf club to remove there old website but im not sure how to do it. i know the ip address but i dont know where to start to take the site down.
Two suggestions:
Probably the quickest and easiest is to change your dns. You will need to know the dns provider so you can change the address it points to.
If you don't want to do that, find the ftp address and password and delete all the files. My ftp client of choice is https://filezilla-project.org/ . I'd take a local copy first in case they want it back. The address might be ftp.[mysite.tld] depending on the hosting.
If you are really stuck talk to the hosting provider. You can get some info about the hosting from a whois lookup on the ip address: https://who.is/