With a new provider in hand, I'm confident that the new site is going to work well. I carefully rebuilt this site from scratch without any remnants of our old web site (which had been hacked in September of last year). I also verified that the superior backup/restore process of the new provider (Eleven2) was indeed working and I have backups at every increment of the build up over the last week.
PHPWebhosting - who has been hosting our site for many years, had some significant issues with hosting our WordPress site that I didn't anticipate until after our new site was up for a week. Various issues - running out of memory errors that never occured on the test site, and a repeat of Google warnings led me to roll the site back to a day before I discovered the Google warnings. Unfortunately, a bug in a WordPress backup plugin caused our DB backups to not complete properly. I use very complex passwords which the plugin could not handle. I didn't discover this until I tried to restore and found no valid data in the DB. My only good backup was the one I initially created after deploying the site for use. At that point, I brought the site down and restored our old site so that I could investigate a new hosting arrangement. The result of that process is this site restored with even better features and (finally) no more warnings from Google.
An unfortunate side effect of this process is that we'll all have to recreate accounts on this new server. Thankfully, I have not lost the membership forms already submitted by members and those will be immediately restored once the accounts are set back up. I am really sorry that we have to go through this - but I think it will be worth the trouble for our club's future.
Rest assured that there were never any exploits in the WordPress code or intrusions into our site. We had always shared stlouisrocketry.org with other web sites on the PHPWebhosting server and I believe that the re-occurrence of the Google warnings pertained to the underlying server and similar hacks (our September Google index poisioning) to one ore more of the other web sites that we had no control over. I have since also discovered that our PHPWebhosting server was listed in two separate spam blacklists which may have affected the delivery of mailing list posts. These issues have forced the decision to shut down our account with PHPWebhosting once the mailing lists have been transitioned. My confidence in our new provider comes from the fact that my personal site (http:\www.heino.com) has been running with Eleven2 and WordPress for many years now and I have over 3000 unique visitors (non search engine) a month (40k over its life) with no Google warnings, blacklisting, or security issues.
Again - I apologize for the disruption, but I want to be sure that our new site is functional and secure as our club identity on the Internet.
Heino