Q:

Do people still name their homepage "index.html" these days?

I'm trying to create my own website and if you read the rules, they say you should name your homepage or mainpage index.html.  Is that really still needed today or is there a reason why we should do that other than convention?  It it something scrapers/crawlers look for?
As my website doesn't really have a page that I consider the "home" page or "main" page, it makes no sense for me to call one index.html.  I'd prefer to just call them by what content the page displays.
Thanks!

A:

Many servers use index. as  the page to show a visitor when they see the root of your site. You can change that in server configuration if you want. But, out of the box, everyone uses index because that's what servers are configured for.

