Setting up correct path for Web and Ftp user account

First , I like to thank DigitalOcean for their No nonsense straight to the point tutorials on how to setup everything about VPS linux , to get one with no experience like me to get my site up and running. also , I do not have a digitalocean Droplet yet , as i learned about this site trying to manage VPS from other provider. so I hope someone can also help me with my question. As per all tutorials here . I setup Vhost for a domain by creating folder in /var/ww/USER/public_html. this works just fine. Also from tutorial here , i setup VSFTPD … and i added ftp folder to /home/USER/ftp . this works as well . however, as a ftp user i have no access to my public_html folder . after upload , i have to use command line to move files from ftp folder to my public_html.

wouldn’t be much easier to create public_html and Ftp folders under /home/USER account ? I come from shared hosting plans , looking at the structure of my folder, i noticed this is how they created all my folders when i joined.

/home/User/public_html /home/User/public_ftp /home/User/email etc… Can anyone tell me what is the benefit of going this direction and if doing this would allow ftp user access to public_html for file management. Thank you so much.