Monthly website care · Any platform
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 work for A$895 a month, on any platform, with premium care, and no scrambling for a freelancer.
In‑house hire
A$80,000
+
per year · salary, super, idle days
−
Upkeep · Essential
A$10,740
per year · A$895/mo, 96 hrs/year of work
=
You keep
a year · for the same skill set, on tap
The process
From first call to ongoing care, in four steps.
No drawn-out onboarding — you'll be live with us inside a week.
01
Day 1
Free site audit
A 30-minute call. We review your site, your stack, and what's bugging you, then send a written audit, whether you sign up or not.
02
Day 2-3
Pick a plan
We recommend the right block of hours from the audit. You sign off, hand over logins, and we're set up.
03
Week 1 onwards
We get to work
Send requests by email or shared board. Monitoring's live from day one, and most tasks land inside your response window.
The problem
Launching the site was the easy part.
Getting the site live is the milestone everyone celebrates. Keeping it fast, secure, and up to date is the part nobody plans for.
01
02
Every fix is the wrong size. Freelancers come and go, agencies are built for big projects, and a full-time hire is overkill for the workload — so the work slips, and slipping costs you leads and sales.
Pricing
Pick the block of hours that fits the site.
Three sizes. Every plan covers any platform and a monthly report; larger plans add monitoring, backups, faster response, and more time.
PLATFORMS WE LOOK AFTER
Essential
A$
895
/mo
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
Most popular
growth
A$
1,895
/mo
20 hours · 10% rollover (up to 2h)
EVERYTHING IN ESSENTIAL, PLUS
Uptime monitoring
Backups are included
Speed & SEO health checks
Fortnightly 30‑min call
24‑hour email response
Choose Growth
PARTNER
A$
3,995
/mo
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.
Who's behind it
A whole studio. Not a lone freelancer.
Upkeep is the ongoing care service from Mugs Studio, the same team that designs and builds websites, now keeping them fast, secure, and up to date month after month.
UX Design
10+
years designing how sites look, feel, and work
Software Development
15+
years building and shipping the code behind them