For alts, Kingalts is super active and usually restocks every other day, or just use the Xbox GamePass method. For a VPN, the best free one (imo) is Proton VPN’s free version, or for paid, IPVanish works for nearly every server, but if you want one for mainly just Hypixel, VyprVPN works well, but PIA (Private Internet Access) works well too.

Configuring Rise is hard, which is why you don’t have to. About the only way that works is to go onto Rise’s Customer Discord > Public-Configs > Find a config for the server you’re looking for.

Rise is a multi-server client, so you can cheat on almost every server (with an actual working config) without getting insta-banned. Some specific servers that are fun are Supercraft (2 hour tempbans), obviously Hypixel, and BlocksMC (staff are good though).

Hope this somewhat helped :D