Question:
How are the domains on a phpwebhosting.com hosting account configured? Am I free to set the docroot / document root to whatever I like?
Answer:
The way our system works is that you sign up with a username and then add your first domain.
By default the first domain goes in:
/home/your_username/www
however you can change this if you would like.
Other domains you add can go pretty much wherever you like. Some people use things off their www like:
/home/your_username/www/site1
/home/your_username/www/site2
(this is not the best method to do things as your extra domains are then viewable as directories on your primary domain)
Other clients organize their domains like:
/home/your_username/site1
/home/your_username/site2
/home/your_username/site3
or
/home/your_username/sites/this.com
/home/your_username/sites/that.com
/home/your_username/sites/etc.com
It is open-ended and should work with just about any method you prefer.