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1. Web services (http), how much traffic? What version of PHP? Did you shut down all unnecessary modules?
2. Inbound traffic (content generation) These processes are creating content on the fly, or writing to the DB?
Reality is it would cost you less (time is money), to put in a couple of multi-core processors and 4Gs of RAM, and its going to be necessary if traffic continues to grow.
Also you can offload much of the static serving load to AWS S3. There is a CDN for Wordpress that's free too.
Easy to set up with subscriptions.
Those two lawyers will be very different. A lawyer familiar with the drug laws will understand a jurisdictions ordinances and the states criminal code. Probably better to get a consultant... give him some equity for subject matter expert.
"We just released a major update to our industry leading <app name here> app. It's addressed some of the security issues caused by the heartbleed bug and <whatever scare tactic you want to use here>."
I hope you planted some ad code in there to make you some extra bucks...