Your "home" directory is a private directory that can only be accessed by your own scripts. The home directory can't be accessed by someone visiting your Web site, and it normally can't be accessed with an FTP program (although you can add an extra FTP account that has access to your home directory if you wish).
The home directory is a different location on the server from your Web site files directory (the place where your Web site files are stored). Most customers don't need to use the home directory.
To see the path to your home directory, enter your domain name in the box at the top of this page.
Advanced users may wish to use the home directory to store information that should be kept completely private, such as passwords that might be needed by your script. It improves the security of your files to store them in a directory, such as the home directory, that can't ever be accessed by anyone with a Web browser.
You can create an additional FTP account to allow you to put files in the home directory if you wish. Keep in mind that adding a new FTP account with access to the entire home directory allows anyone who knows that password to view e-mail messages, Web logs, and other sensitive files mentioned below.
If you use telnet, SSH, SFTP or SCP to connect to our servers, the home directory is the default directory that you're placed in when you first connect.
You may notice other files in your home directory, including:
Don't delete any files in your home directory unless you created them or you're sure you know what you're doing.
Even though your home directory is designed to be private, you should not use it to store extremely valuable information (for example, credit card numbers) in "plain text". If your scripts collect valuable data such as credit card numbers, security experts recommend encrypting the data and transferring it to a secure computer, rather than leaving it on any Web server.