I would advise not to buy Ripple, and check out this article to learn about XRP's weaknesses: https://steemit.com/ripple/@keks/five-cautions-about-ripple .
Note that you did not buy Ripple, you bought XRP which is very, very different from Ripple. Ripple as a company has many projects, but XRP is only one of them, and in fact they are working on many others that would rival XRP, and have better tech and support.