The truth and honesty is on both sides.
If someone want to open a server he should invest some money as the rest of the server owners out there, and of course he will recover the money from donations.
What Ghost or xDrac are doing is just a str8-to-win tactic, he/they do not spend money on dedicated+protection so they are not burning any money out of their pockets, this ideea using the Dreams concept as a old stable server to draw attention+donations to start it over once again is quite good.
I do not support them, because i sincerly from my side i do not agree with this method. In a way it proves the hunger for money without a risc. But if players want a good and stable server then i dont see the problem in donating one or two bucks for a project.
Dreams was a really good server, too bad they are going for L2J instead of doing a OFF project.
Good luck tho.