[Ryan Spock]

The tech I spoke to today said that it would be no problem to change passwords for me and pop a temporary index page up to say the site was down. Once the new password was in place, I could simply re-publish the site.

Exactly. This should take less than 5 minutes, assuming a live human being is available at the web hosting company. It's my understanding that this particular site has been down for several hours or more.

[Ryan Spock]

And whatever the case, since it's a conservative site, I wish them well -- hopefully somebody will get things figured out, get the page fixed, and ultimately get it back on line with all the security holes plugged, so it doesn't happen again.