WordPress is back!
I finally found a little time to tinker with my website, and got WordPress back up and running. It was always here, just tucked away until I had time to tinker with it.
I nixed zPanel, and moved the backup along with the database to a fresh VM. Some of the settings in the security plug-in gave me the headaches resulting in the site being mothballed for the last year or so.
In any case, the WP site is back up and running.