How to get donations with a creative server?

Get a cosmetics plugin and sell the cosmetics for $5 to $10 for a group or for $1 or $2 individually.

I waited 6 months before accepting donations on my creative server.

Hope you have generous people, as that's probably where you'll most likely get donations. The options aren't very good. Rule of the thumb; be able to sustain without them until you find people that do donate, which can take a long time. Paid only server... it needs to be extremely good in all ways or don't bother. Sell staff? Terrible. Worldedit paid? Gives it a bit of a P2W aspect.

Ultimately, generosity and *shrug* cosmetics? Might be what ya should look at.

Paid only server.