You can easily edit any of the Essentials config files on the fly without having to restart your server. Very handy if the players want something implemented - you can do it pretty much immediately.
Editing the config files[]
Pretty self explanatory. Edit whatever config files you need to to implement whatever your editing them for
IMPORTANT! You need to make sure that you have the /reload command in your list of permissions (commands.ini) for the ranks that you intend to be able to do in game config reloads!
Reloading in game[]
Easiest quickest way? type the following to reload ALL of the files, in game with no impact
/reload all
Other handy ones to do individual files:
/reload motd
/reload kits
/reload config
/reload commands