Updated: 28 September 2026
Your home directory is the top folder of your hosting account. Everything in the account is inside it: websites, email, logs and settings.
On our Linux hosting it is /home/USERNAME (on some servers /home2/ or similar), where USERNAME is your cPanel username. cPanel shows the exact path under Home Directory in the General Information panel.
Main folders
public_html: your main website (also reachable aswww).mail: your mailboxes.logs: archived access logs.etcand.cpanel: account settings; do not change them by hand.