My client uses a very old hosting company that cannot even support php 5.2. We urge him to switch to IBM softlayer.

My Client: I am afraid that your hosting company(IBM) will close one day.

Me: ... What?

waaaaaaaaaat :O
IBM & closed in one sentence :O

To be fair, support at SoftLayer is hit or miss. I once worked for a managed services firm that resold SL and if we needed a support ticket from them, it was usually a pain. Also for a few months ok Tuesdays, our SAN would go down for half the day and there was nothing we could do but call them every hour.

But not supporting an updated php is asking to be hacked.

Continue by saying What? What?

Sure, good point....

......wait...WAT?

Does that means your client's hosting company is older than IBM