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The websites aren't separated from each other so you could consider less security (if one website is compromised then all on that same account effectively are at risk), the websites would share the same resources allocated to that cPanel account etc. There are both positives and negatives of doing something like this. I would imagine that you're wanting to consolidate them to cut down costs. Have you considered a cheap reseller account?
You're right. Cost savings is one of the primary goals.
Might be worth switching to a cheap reseller plan, you get the security from separating the accounts from each other and less cost since you can get it from $2/mo (BuyShared)
If one website is compromised and the attacker is able to upload a shell, the whole file system will be available to him. This is a huge security problem and I have witnessed this more times than I can count.
If you want to reduce costs, consider switching to VestaCP which is free. Ofcourse you will have teething issues but if once you fine tune, its a secure and well managed panel with great performance.
If you can't move out of cPanel... consider getting a VPS with WHM. Cost saving is not worth if you are exposed the risks of loosing your site/data and be shamed with your clients.
If you don't want a VPS that you can manage on your own, go for a reseller. To be honest, less stuff for you to do, and with a good company behind you that manages the server (for example BuyShared) you'll have even less to worry about.
Also, do not put them on the same account as addons. Most provider nowadays add CPU/IO/RAM limits, and if one of the sites hits the limit, all your sites will be affected. Go with buyshared! It's $20/year for their smallest reseller plan
Disadvantages:
Single shared server downtime means all your sites will be down
One website compromised means a high chance that all will be compromised
Server on a spam block would probably mean all your emails would probably be on the spam block
There is a higher chance that you may be suspended if you use too much resources on a single shared account if your sites have high traffic
Advantages
Reduction in cost depending on the possible risk
Reduction in login management perhaps
Overall suggestion:
Don't put all your eggs in one basket unless you can afford to lose them.
does cpanel still do that asinine thing where they set things up as:
/public_html/(your main site)
/public_html/somedomain.com/ (your addon site, which on the filesystem is a subdir of your main site)
I always manually overrode that to put the directory somewhere else...
There's an option now to make /home/user/domain.com/ as default in WHM.