Monthly website maintenance and WordPress care plans for businesses in Melbourne and right across Australia — updates, backups, security monitoring, performance checks and real human support, handled by our Melbourne team so you never have to think about it.
Australian team
Based here, working your hours — not a timezone away
144+ projects delivered
Over 10+ years building and maintaining sites for Australian businesses
One developer, start to finish
The same person every time — no re-explaining your site
Straight answers, on your terms
We only take work we can finish. Ask us anything first — no obligation
Every plan includes the core maintenance tasks that protect your investment — we handle the technical work so you never have to think about it.
Month-to-month website maintenance for Melbourne & Australian businesses. No lock-in contracts — change or cancel any time.
Essential
$159 /mo AUD
Keeping a site secure, updated and online. No development time included.
What is covered
Billed monthly in AUD. Cancel any time — no lock-in.
Dev
$700 /mo AUD
Your site stays up, stays secure and stays current — and when something breaks, a developer fixes it rather than logging it.
What is covered
Billed monthly in AUD. Cancel any time — no lock-in.
Master
$1,300 /mo AUD
Where Dev fixes and maintains, Master builds — pages, integrations, and the email and domain problems nobody else will own.
Everything in Dev Plan included +
Billed monthly in AUD. Cancel any time — no lock-in.
Ultimate
Quoted scoped to the work
When the roadmap needs more than Master, or the work is better run as a project.
Get a quoteEverything in Master Plan included +
All plans are month-to-month, no lock-in — prices in AUD. Need a new site instead? See our Melbourne WordPress development, or explore workflow automation. Site already hacked? Read our guide to fixing a hacked WordPress site — or we’ll clean it for you.
If you build sites for clients, maintenance is the part that never fits the schedule — updates that have to be checked, backups nobody wants to own, and a phone call the one week you are on holiday. Plenty of agencies, designers and freelancers outsource WordPress maintenance to us and keep everything else in house.
You stay the agency. We stay in the background.
Full detail, including what happens to your client relationship and how a batch of sites is onboarded, is on the white-label maintenance page. Taking on a site someone else has been maintaining? We start with a health check before quoting, because inherited sites are routinely further behind than anyone realises — and if it turns out to already be compromised, that is a cleanup job first, not a maintenance one.
The team is Melbourne-based and most of our clients are here, but website maintenance does not require anyone to be in the room. We provide WordPress maintenance services to businesses in every state, on the same plans and at the same prices.
The practical difference against an offshore provider is not the price — it is that support runs on Australian business hours, so a problem raised at 9am is being looked at at 9am, not handed to a shift that starts after you have gone home.
Most people who call us already have someone. Either nothing visibly happens each month, or the one time something broke nobody answered. If you are choosing a new WordPress website maintenance company, here is exactly what changing over involves — and what to ask us and everyone else on your shortlist.
Before any quote we look at what you actually have: how far behind core and plugins are, whether backups exist and where they are stored, and whether the site is already compromised. Inherited sites are routinely further behind than anyone realises, and we would rather tell you that before you sign than after.
We take over access from your current provider or your host directly. You do not need an awkward conversation with anyone first — plenty of clients start with us while still paying the previous provider out, and the site stays live the entire time.
Month one is usually catching up rather than routine work: outstanding updates, backups moved off the host, monitoring pointed at us. After that it settles into the plan you chose.
We answer all four on this page. If a provider will not, that is your answer.
We maintain the sites we understand best — WordPress, WooCommerce, and custom-built themes.
Local WordPress developers available during Melbourne business hours. When something urgent happens at 9am, you speak to a real person — not a ticket system in a different timezone.
A restorable off-site backup is taken before anything is updated, so a bad release is reversed in minutes rather than debated
Custom login URLs, file permission locks, two-factor authentication, WAF rules, and application-level firewall — not just a security plugin ticked on.
We do not just keep your site online — we keep it fast. Monthly Core Web Vitals checks and proactive optimisation ensure your Google rankings do not suffer from performance decay.
Monthly reports showing every update applied, every backup taken, uptime percentage, security results, and Core Web Vitals scores. You always know exactly what was done.
Every plan is month-to-month. We earn your business every month by doing good work — not by trapping you in a 12-month contract. Cancel any time with 30 days notice.
Melbourne WordPress maintenance
Updates, backups, monitoring and security hardening — handled for you, so your WordPress site never becomes a liability.
CloudyWP runs four plans: Essential at $159/mo covers maintenance only; Dev at $700/mo adds 5 hours of developer time a month; Master at $1,300/mo adds 10 hours; Ultimate is quoted for anything larger. All are month-to-month with no lock-in contract — you can change or cancel any time.
Both, as long as the site runs on WordPress or WooCommerce. Most people searching for website maintenance in Melbourne do not know or care which platform their site was built on — they want someone to keep it online, updated and backed up. That is exactly what these plans do. If your site is on Shopify, Squarespace, Wix or a custom framework, tell us what it is and we will say honestly whether we are the right people for it.
Yes — we maintain WordPress sites for businesses right across Australia. Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and regional clients are all on the same plans as our Melbourne clients, at the same prices. The team is Melbourne-based, so support runs on Australian business hours rather than being handed to an overseas overnight shift, which is the practical difference for anyone comparing us with an offshore provider.
Yes. WordPress maintenance outsourcing is a real part of what we do — we act as the white-label WordPress maintenance agency behind other agencies, designers and freelancers who would rather not run updates and backups themselves. You keep the client relationship and we stay in the background — reports come to you under your own name, and we deal with your team rather than your client unless you would prefer otherwise. Pricing is per site on the same ladder, and multi-site arrangements are quoted once we know how many sites and what state they are in.
At a minimum: WordPress core, theme and plugin updates applied and checked rather than run blind, off-site backups stored away from the host, uptime and SSL monitoring that alerts the provider instead of you, malware scanning, and a report showing what was actually done. Most WordPress maintenance companies cover the first item and are vaguer about the rest, so ask two things before signing anywhere — whether backups leave the server the site lives on, and who is woken up when the monitoring fires. A plan where the alert lands in your inbox is a notification service, not maintenance.
Malware scanning, file-integrity checks, login hardening, SSL expiry monitoring and alerts on the vulnerability disclosures that affect plugins you actually run — not a generic feed. WordPress security for Melbourne businesses is mostly unglamorous prevention: the overwhelming majority of sites we are called to clean were compromised through a plugin with a known, patched vulnerability that nobody had applied. Keeping current is the security measure. Everything else is a second line.
Every plan covers WordPress core, theme and plugin checks, uptime and SSL monitoring, weekly off-site backups, malware scanning and a monthly status report. What changes as you go up the ladder is developer time: Essential is maintenance only, Dev includes 5 hours a month and Master 10, so updates, fixes and performance work are done for you rather than reported to you.
Uptime monitoring alerts come to us, not to you, and every plan includes malware scanning. On Dev and Master the cleanup and restore come out of your included developer hours. On Essential, which carries no development time, we quote it as a fixed-price job from $299 AUD.
A working site still needs updates — outdated WordPress core, plugins, and themes are the most common cause of hacks and breakage. A maintenance plan keeps everything current and backed up so a small problem never becomes a rebuild.
Yes — we take over existing WordPress sites built by anyone. We start with a health check covering updates, security, backups, and performance, then bring the site onto your chosen plan.
Why CloudyWP
WordPress website maintenance and care plans for Melbourne and Australian businesses. Updates, security monitoring, backups and support from $159/mo, no lock-in.
Get a fixed quote02 — How we work
Every CloudyWP project runs the same way, whether it is a one-page site or a store with a thousand SKUs. Here is exactly what happens.
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A single scoping call, then a written plan: what gets built, what it costs, and when it ships. No discovery-phase invoices, no moving targets.
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Custom WordPress or Shopify on clean code you own outright. Every build ships fast, passes Core Web Vitals, and is handed over documented.
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Your site talks to the tools you already run — CRM, invoicing, email, stock. The repetitive admin stops being someone's job and starts running itself.
Scope
A fixed quote, in writing
Deliverables, price and dates agreed before a line of code is written.
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