On hosts I have used befor I seen the directory structure like:

/Database - Only writable area in the site.
/HTML - Where the html and everything else resides. Appears to actually be "root" for www purposes.

So www.Blah.com would resolve to the /HTML directory.

How is this done? When I create a site in IIS I assume I would just make the /HTML dir to be the root of the site. Then I would setup a ftp to point at "/" where right below that would be HTML and Database?

You follow that? Was I clear enough? Would you do it this way?

That's pretty much it. There are a couple of other directories to include; logs and CGI (if you need execute permissions).

Hope that helps!

Yes that helped Rack-ster. Thanks.