A survey we created is probably going to get some media attention and because of this we expect 15,000 to 40,000 responses. Do you think our server can handle that?

MemTotal:       12308296 kB
rageusen@lw51www1:~$ lscpu
Architecture:          x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                2
On-line CPU(s) list:   0,1
Thread(s) per core:    1
Core(s) per socket:    1
Socket(s):             2
NUMA node(s):          1
Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
CPU family:            6
Model:                 58
Model name:            Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697A v4 @ 2.60GHz
Stepping:              0
CPU MHz:               2599.818
BogoMIPS:              5199.99
Hypervisor vendor:     VMware
Virtualization type:   full
L1d cache:             32K
L1i cache:             32K
L2 cache:              256K
L3 cache:              40960K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0,1

net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 32768    60999

net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 60
 

Hello there,
I think you should to to a consultancy firm and have them look into this matter
since if something goes wrong your whole project might collapse

Did you sort it out?
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Well, we looked at it some more and finally decided that the server should suffice. As it turns out, it does. Meanwhile, over 18,000 people have filled out our survey.