I wrote a blog post already about Managing Your Default Documents with IIS Manager but if you are a Cytanium hosting client you can actually perform this directly through the control panel without the need for the IIS management tools or any IIS knowledge.

From your main control panel screen hover your mouse over Web and select Web Sites:

Then click on the name of your site from the list of sites (you may have more than one depending on your services and configuration):

On the next screen, the Web Site Properties, you’ll see a few different management tabs with access to all the settings for your site. On the default tab – “Home Folder” – you can see the list of valid default documents for your site:

That document list is a standard text box so you can cut, copy, paste, or type as desired. In the example above I added YourHomePage.html to the top of the default documents list. If that page exists it will be the first file loaded by default for your site if a visitor doesn’t specifically enter a desired page name. The most common default page names are already in the list as you can see, but you can manage this list to contain whatever files and in whatever order you want – live and in real-time – right there in the control panel.

This is just one more way that Cytanium makes hosting easy and painless.