I've always thought it was unfair that the 9 in 9% uptime doesn't count.

"1 nine" tends to mean "90% availability" i.e. 37 days of downtime per year.

9% availability would be an uptime of ~33 days a year, I think at that point, we're pushing the semantics of "available" if the service is down the entire year except one month on average.

Since "N nines" for positive integers N denotes an uptime of 1 – 10^(–N), I think it's fair to analytically continue that formula, and say that 9% availability corresponds to 0.041 nines!

I offer a nine fives colo.

Hey, there's still plenty if you don't mind the leading 8

Have they aimed for 86 uptime?

67 uptime should be within reach for them.