Standalone Internet Explorer and Hosting

by Ryan Parman • November 5, 2004 • Browsers, Website • 6 comments

For those interested, I’ve added a few more mirrors for the Standalone IE downloads. I’m really beginning to feel the download stress here at Skyzyx.com, as I hit ~25GB transfer last month and my max is 30GB per month. So, I signed up for a Dreamhost account (I caught the 1 year for $7.77 deal!) which added another 40 or 60 GB of transfer a month… I forget which. Either way, I’m not too worried anymore about going over my transfer bandwidth for the month anymore.

I’ve gone ahead and added my new server (www.skyzyx.net) to the download list as “Primary Download 1″. I’ve also finally gotten around to adding the MackHosting.com mirror. Chris at MackHosting.com has turned out to be a cool guy that I’ve gotten a chance to talk to a bit via IM. Although he’s not a weblogger, he does offer really good small business hosting plans (100 MB space and 1GB transfer for $30/year). Go give his website some love.

I’ve also been contacted by someone who knows how to enable conditional comments in the Standalone IE’s. I’ve really been lagging on getting this information out to the public, but I’m hoping to get to it this weekend. Keep an eye out.

« Update » I figured out how to get Bit Torrent setup, so you can now download these files via BT too!

Discussion

Mark IJbema

November 6, 2004

What about using bittorrent instead? you can still seed it from this server, but mirrors can be added and removed seamlessly (if you decide to do so, please mail me and i’ll seed them)

Ryan Parman

To be honest, I’ve only heard a little about BitTorrent, so I’m not that familiar with it yet. Is there someplace I could look to find out more about it and how to use it?

Joshua Heyer

“I’ve also been contacted by someone who knows how to enable conditional comments in the Standalone IE’s. I’ve really been lagging on getting this information out to the public, but I’m hoping to get to it this weekend. Keep an eye out.”

Ryan,

Get it out! I’ve been waiting for something like this.

Andrew Krespanis

Has anyone managed to get the standalone IE 5.5 to work under XP SP2 yet? I’ve tried a multitude of wild guesses, but it still crashes instantly upon startup IE 5.0 still runs strong (well, as strong as ever) but 5.5 is totally borked…
On another note — I haven’t had any problems getting conditional comments to work in the standalone copies.

November 7, 2004

Andrew,

They work fine for me. You could also try renaming the iexplore.exe and iexplore.exe.local files to something else, like ie55.exe and ie55.exe.local. That seems to work for many people who were having problems.

November 8, 2004

Thanks Ryan, but that was the first thing I tried

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