A lot of admins trying to host photon have been unable to after i switched from Node to Bun server. Bun is a newer server that is significantly faster, but it seems to have caused issues when hosting for weird reasons when people try to host it.
Starting from v1.31.2, I will publish node images as well as bun images, it's very simple to access:
Instead of ghcr.io/xyphyn/photon:tag, do ghcr.io/xyphyn/photon:tag-node