Error: read EINVAL when connecting to MongoDB with mongoose and SSL - node.js

Question

When I try to connect to my MongoDB that requires SSL, my NodeJs app crashes on the following method:
conn = await mongoose.connect(process.env.DB_HOST, {
tlsCAFile: __dirname + '/ca-certificate.crt',
useNewUrlParser: true,
useUnifiedTopology: true
})
and I get the following error in stderr.log:
events.js:377
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: read EINVAL
at Pipe.onStreamRead (internal/stream_base_commons.js:209:20)
Emitted 'error' event on Socket instance at:
at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:106:8)
at emitErrorCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:74:3)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:82:21) {
errno: -22,
code: 'EINVAL',
syscall: 'read'
}
The interesting this is that this works just fine on my local windows machine, but crashes when deployed to A2Hosting shared hosting.
Also I am able to connect successfully (even on A2hosting) when connecting without mongoose like so:
const client = new MongoClient(uri);
try {
await client.connect();
const db = client.db('egomenu');
console.log('connected successfully');
} finally {
await client.close();
}
I am using mongoose: ^6.3.1 and node: 14.20.1 on A2hosting.
I believe that the error is generated when trying to read the .crt file during connection; however cannot figure out what is causing it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated :)