GovCMS
The GovCMS team is sponsored by the Department of Finance in Canberra, Australia.
Plans and prices
Nano
up to 5,000 page views/month · 15,000 hits/month
Read 15 Oct 2026 · govcms.gov.au
Micro
5,001–15,000 page views/month · 45,000 hits/month
Read 15 Oct 2026 · govcms.gov.au
Mini
15,001–50,000 page views/month · 150,000 hits/month
Read 15 Oct 2026 · govcms.gov.au
Extra-Small
50,001–100,000 page views/month · 300,000 hits/month
Read 15 Oct 2026 · govcms.gov.au
Small
100,001–175,000 page views/month · 525,000 hits/month
Read 15 Oct 2026 · govcms.gov.au
Medium
175,001–350,000 page views/month · 1.0 million hits/month
Read 15 Oct 2026 · govcms.gov.au
Large
350,001–800,000 page views/month · 2.4 million hits/month
Read 15 Oct 2026 · govcms.gov.au
SaaS Nano
Up to 5,000 page views/month · 15,000 hits/month · 5GB database · 10GB file storage
Read 5 Oct 2026 · govcms.gov.au
SaaS Micro
5,001–15,000 page views/month · 45,000 hits/month · 5GB database · 10GB file storage
Read 5 Oct 2026 · govcms.gov.au
On the record
- Accessibility
- The official site states GovCMS meets WCAG 2.0 Level AA.govcms.gov.au · read 15 Oct 2026
- API capabilities
- The Content as an API concept includes content discovery, subscriptions, syndication, quality assurance and cross-agency publishing governance.govcms.gov.au · read 15 Oct 2026
- API initiative
- Content as an API is an alpha-stage project intended to provide a government content hub and syndication platform.govcms.gov.au · read 15 Oct 2026
- Audience
- GovCMS is available to Australian government organisations at Commonwealth and State level.govcms.gov.au · read 5 Oct 2026
- Availability
- GovCMS advertises a 99.95% uptime guarantee and 24/7 monitoring and support.govcms.gov.au · read 15 Oct 2026
- Backups
- SaaS includes self-serve backups retained for 90 days and archival backups retained for seven years.govcms.gov.au · read 15 Oct 2026
- CDN and WAF
- SaaS includes CDN, web application firewall and DDoS protection; PaaS makes web protection optional.govcms.gov.au · read 15 Oct 2026
- Current status
- The live status page currently reports all listed GovCMS systems as operational.status.govcms.support · read 15 Oct 2026
- Developer extensibility
- The repository supports contributions through GitHub issues and pull requests and requires automated tests before manual review.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Developer prerequisites
- The public distribution repository lists Apache or Nginx, PHP 8.4 or newer, and MySQL or PostgreSQL as prerequisites.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Drupal hosting
- Drupal 11 hosting is included in both SaaS and PaaS plans.govcms.gov.au · read 15 Oct 2026
- Environments
- Each SaaS subscription includes five environments and additional environments cost $85.00 per environment per month.govcms.gov.au · read 15 Oct 2026
- Hosting location
- GovCMS says its hosting services house websites in Australian data centres.govcms.gov.au · read 5 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- GovCMS’s Digital Experience Platform program lists Rules as Code, content personalisation, analytics, digital asset management, and site optimisation services accessible through its Drupal Services Panel.govcms.gov.au · read 5 Oct 2026
- Integrations and infrastructure
- The status page lists Amazon EKS, AWS Sydney compute and S3, Akamai CDN, Lagoon API, Akamai API, OpenSearch and Freshdesk service desk components.status.govcms.support · read 15 Oct 2026
- IRAP
- The platform completed an IRAP assessment aligned with the 2019 Australian Government Information Security Manual at OFFICIAL: Sensitive level.govcms.gov.au · read 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- GovCMS is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.0.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: custom code
- A GovCMS SaaS case study states that bespoke modules and server-side services cannot be deployed in the SaaS environment.drevops.com · read 15 Oct 2026
