Dattebayo Fansubs Donates $6400 To Doctors Without Borders
2007/03/16
Dattebayo is proud to announce that it is making a $6379.95 donation to Doctors Without Borders. This donation was made possible by the contributions of our fans during the January fund raising drive. Dattebayo had expected to raise $2500 within one month of opening donations. This goal was reached in four hours. In total, $9926.77 was raised during the fund raising event.
Dattebayo is also happy to announce that the new server that it raised money for has been in service for nearly five weeks, and has increased Dattebayo's hosting capacity to a maximum of 120,000 concurrent clients, up from the 60,000 of our previous server.
Dattebayo would especially like to extend its thanks to Erin T., who donated an incredibly generous $250.00. This donation was the largest single donation amount received in the fund raiser. Dattebayo also had numerous $100.00 donations that helped us reach a total that completely blew away our expectations. Dattebayo would also like to thank Adam M. and Lam N., who donated $0.53 and $0.45 respectively. After fees, this netted a total of $0.34. Thanks guys!
Due to the tremendous success of the fund raising drive, Dattebayo made the decision to buy a more powerful server than it originally planned, and bought the absolute best hardware available for the application.
For those interested in the tech specs, it is a dual-CPU Xeon 5140 at 2.33 ghz, 4gb ram, 2x320 GB SATA Segate Hard Drive, 3Ware SATA Raid Controller, and a SuperMicro 1U Server Case.
In the interest of full disclosure, the expenses related to the server are as follows.
Donation total after PayPal fees: $9926.77
- Server Cost: $2901.22
- Shipping of Server: $235.60
- Server Installation and Server Import Taxes: $400.00
- Money Transfer Fees: $10.00
- Total Donation Amount: $6379.95
Dattebayo's staff fansubs Bleach, Naruto, and its other projects without any financial compensation. Dattebayo does not charge for fansubs, and actively speaks out against charging for fansubs.
A $5500.00 donation to Doctors Without Borders provides 10,000 people with emergency medical care for three months.
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Doctors Without Borders is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.
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