We use VPS on day to day basis.

Here's a little story for you -

A common person once told me he wanted a dedicated server. However along the way he was always apprehensive - I'm new to the Dedicated biz what if something goes wrong.....somehow he mistakenly messed up his server , crashed the entire thing ...he asked me for a reload....Well I had to tell him...Reloads cost money...50-100$ for a reload and refresh ..plus no way to recover your data, Im afraid.

And here's another one , my favourite and hopefully yours -

A common person once told me he wanted a VPS server. However along the way he was always apprehensive - I'm new to the Dedicated/VPS biz what if something goes wrong.....somehow he mistakenly messed up his server , crashed the entire thing ...he asked me for a reload....Well I happily told him..our main server backups your vps every night so we dont lose any data ..we can reload your vps back to where it was last working great..and help you out..no loss of money

Moral of the story..with high experience go dedicated...you get more resources. However less support if things backfire.

For a new user or someone with less tech knowledge go with VPS. You can't go wrong there