A fair comparison for a cPanel + Cloudflare admin: architecture, Cloudflare-plane awareness, footprint, threat intel, and which of the three actually fits your server.
An abuse blocker is only as good as its decisions. How Swatter turns web-log behavior into a 0–100 score, why a blended score plus decisive floors catches focused attacks a plain average would hide, and why demanding failure evidence keeps it off your real visitors.
Our own server went down one night and the monitoring announced it, on schedule, to a channel nobody was watching. Why every serverless uptime tool wants to be a status page, why an alarm is a different animal — and the dead-man watchdog we built so a real outage sends a text, once.