For websites I design/make, I generally have two subdomains for each, correspondingly called alpha and beta.

The approach is here:
alpha.site1.com
beta.site1.com
www.site1.com

alpha.site2.com
beta.site2.com
www.site2.com


Immediately there is a problem here because it just adds 'alpha' to the main /public_html/ folder, and, well there can't be two of the same folder in one folder, which as logic goes *should not* happen. I mean this was in the first pages of DNS and BIND (First chapter anyway) What gives?

Said that, what am I doing wrong? I'd love to have /public_html/site1/[alpha,beta,active] and route those each through something like virtualhosts. I can work with that.

That sounds a bit silly, but, thanks for the idea of a work around... I had looked into the solution a bit more and it just seems like a hack to me... I don't want to put too much strain on the server by having to mod_rewrite everything.

Not having this ability of being able to keep things organized is a *major* setback. Thus far the speed is fantastic, seriously, that's the fasted I've ever seen my ftp client move, and the server load is nice to see that you don't overload things to the brim.

I'll be moving to another server, but this will not get bad ratings in my mind.

Thanks for your time

At this time, it is not something that cPanel officially supports - so till they say it works 100%, I am sure Lunarpages will not either.  The problem is that it sometimes works and sometimes does not work - that is the reason it is not supported.