ZetaBoards
The ZetaBoards documentation page
URL	www.zetaboards.com
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Remotely hosted internet forum
Registration	Required for creating forums; Admin optional on individual forums.
Owner	Zathyus Networks, Inc.
Created by	Brandon Kopetzky
Current status	Public

ZetaBoards is a forum software and website created by Zathyus Networks that offers the hosting of Invision Power Board version 1.3. It was founded in September, 2002^[1], and uses a custom made forum software, but also a modified version of the Invision Power Board (IPB) 1.3^[2] forum software. When registering, users may choose whether to have a ZetaBoard or an IPB board. It was founded and is led by Brandon Kopetzky who lives in Bowie, Maryland^[3].

According to its terms of service, ZetaBoards does not restrict forums on the basis of post, topic, or member number, nor bandwidth, nor are forums deleted for inactivity^[4]. Google AdSense is the site's main source of revenue, however users may purchase ad removal^[5], as well as increased file space for uploads^[6].

In an official announcement which has since been lost in a data crash, Brandon Kopetzky, owner of InvisionFree, announced that a new name would be given to the software - ZetaBoards. ZetaBoards was designed from scratch, without any ties to Invision Power Board - the software that InvisionFree was based on. ZetaBoards, like InvisionFree, is remotely hosted^[7] as opposed to being downloaded like other forum software such as the aforementioned IPB and vBulletin. The software has been described by Brandon as this:

"ZetaBoards is an all-encompassing upgrade that will take the place of InvisionFree's service. ZetaBoards features enhanced moderation, automatic protections against spam bots, a post search, a new PM system, and an enhanced skinning system, as well as many more new features and enhancements."

Limitations of ZetaBoards include the lack of FTP access, editing restrictions and inability to access the MySQL database directly, as the software is remotely hosted.