Folder Structure of a Hosting Account
When you connect with SFTP or open the File Manager, you start in your home folder. It looks like this:
/ your home (read-only at the top level)
├── domains/
│ ├── example.com/
│ │ └── public_html/ ← the website for example.com
│ └── blog.example.com/
│ └── public_html/ ← one folder per domain or subdomain
├── logs/ ← PHP error logs
├── tmp/ ← temporary files, PHP sessions and uploads
├── repositories/ ← Git repositories (only if you use Git)
└── backups/ ← a prepared backup download (only after you request one)public_html is the web root
Everything inside public_html can be requested by visitors (apart from a few blocked file types, see Files and Paths Blocked for Security). Files outside it, for example domains/example.com/config/, are never served.
That's a good place for things your site needs but visitors shouldn't see, such as a framework's source code or a config file. Your PHP code can read anything under domains/ and tmp/.
Logs
PHP errors are written to logs/php8.3.error.log (the number matches your PHP version). Slow PHP requests are logged to logs/php8.3.slow.log. Check these first when a page shows an error; see Troubleshooting Hosted Websites.
Default page
A new domain gets an "Under construction" index.html. If you upload an index.php, it's served first; you can delete the index.html.