For Vanilla Forums we have a file based configuration interface with a bunch of utility methods for writing/reading too it. This is the default and what you rea

For Vanilla Forums we have a file based configuration interface with a bunch of utility methods for writing/reading too it. This is the default and what you really want in a single environment either hosted or in development. In our cloud infrastructure though we have 10k+ distributed sites so the interface reads/writes to an API backed by a database. A major benefit to the confit file is that you can just open it in a text editor and muck around during development.