Just counted the Servers we have online for IRC right now. We have right now 22 machines online (24 Are in our up to date list).
I'm going to publish a list of all machines this week so you could select one near you.

So we are quite confident to handle the load during JOTI. We are currently working on a statistics System, maybe we are able to finish it before JOTI so that we can give you nice graphs :)