WEBSITE MAINTENANCE · MELBOURNE & AUSTRALIA-WIDE
Website Maintenance, Melbourne and Australia-wide
All the upkeep of an in‑house hire, at a fraction of the cost. An in-house web hire costs A$80,000+ a year. We do the same website maintenance work for A$990 a month, on Framer, Webflow, WordPress, Squarespace or Shopify, with no scrambling for a freelancer. Based in Melbourne, working with clients across Australia.
In‑house hire
A$80,000
+
per year · salary, super, idle days, and you still handle maintenance
−
UPKEEP · ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE PLAN
A$11,880
per year · A$990/mo, 96 hrs/year of work
=
You keep
a year · for the same skill set, on tap
How our website maintenance works
From first call to ongoing maintenance, in four steps.
No drawn-out onboarding — you'll be live with us inside a week.
01
Day 1
Free website maintenance audit
A 30-minute call. We review your site, your stack, and what's bugging you, then send a written audit, whether you sign up or not.
02
Day 2-3
Pick a plan
We recommend the right maintenance plan from the audit. You sign off, hand over logins, and we're set up.
03
Week 1 onwards
We get to work
Send requests by email or shared board. Monitoring's live from day one, and most tasks land inside your response window.
Website maintenance for Framer, Webflow, WordPress, Squarespace and Shopify
Every platform breaks differently. WordPress needs plugin and core updates, Shopify needs app and theme upkeep, and Framer, Webflow and Squarespace need someone watching content, forms, integrations and speed. We maintain all of them, and custom builds too.
Why websites need maintenance
Launching the site was the easy part. Maintenance is the part nobody plans for.
Getting the site live is the milestone everyone celebrates. Keeping it fast, secure, and up to date is the part nobody plans for.
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Every fix is the wrong size. Freelancers come and go, agencies are built for big projects, and a full-time hire is overkill for the workload — so the work slips, and slipping costs you leads and sales.
Website maintenance pricing
Website maintenance plans. Pick the block of hours that fits the site.
Three sizes. Every maintenance plan covers any platform and a monthly report; larger plans add monitoring, backups, faster response, and more time.
PLATFORMS WE LOOK AFTER
Essential MAINTENANCE
A$
990
/mo (incl. GST)
8 hours of website work · no rollover
Content updates
Bug fixes
Monthly report
48‑hour email response
Any platform
Monitoring and backups available from Growth
Start with Essential
Best for most sites
growth MAINTENANCE
A$
2,200
/mo (incl. GST)
20 hours · 10% rollover (up to 2h)
EVERYTHING IN ESSENTIAL, PLUS
Uptime monitoring
Backups (where access allows)
Speed & SEO health checks
Fortnightly 30‑min call
24‑hour email response
Choose Growth
PARTNER MAINTENANCE
A$
4,400
/mo (incl. GST)
36 hours · 20% rollover (up to 7.2h)
EVERYTHING IN GROWTH, PLUS
Proactive improvements
Recommendations
Fortnightly 45‑min call
Same‑day email response
Dedicated point of contact
Choose Partner
Minimum term of 3 months applies, then month-to-month.
Most Australian maintenance plans sit between A$100 and A$350 a month and buy you plugin updates and a backup. Ours buy you a studio's design and development hours, on tap. Different service, different number.
Your Melbourne website maintenance team
A whole studio. Not a lone freelancer.
Upkeep is the website maintenance service from Mugs Studio, a Melbourne design and development studio. The same team that designs and builds websites now keeps them fast, secure, and up to date month after month, for clients across Melbourne and Australia.
UX Design
10+ years of user experience design
Designing how sites look, feel, and work
Software Development
15+ years of software development
Building and shipping the code behind them
In steady hands. Your site is looked after by a studio with real design and development craft, watching over it and improving it as it grows.
WHERE WE WORK
Website maintenance for Melbourne businesses
We're based in Melbourne and work with businesses across Victoria and the rest of Australia. That means your maintenance runs on Australian business hours, your monthly call is at a sensible time, and you're dealing with a studio you could meet in person rather than a support queue in another timezone.
Most of our work is remote, so where your business sits matters less than what your site is built on. We maintain sites for clients in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and regional Victoria.